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tlamamaqui.

Headword: 
tlamamaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who bears load, porter (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamāmahqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑːmɑhki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMĀMAHQUI someone who bears load, porter / cargador (Z) [(2)Zp.25,210]. In both attestations Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long before the glottal stop, which is impossible in terms of Nahuatl morphology. See MĀMĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 280.