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tlamattinemi.

Headword: 
tlamattinemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to go about jesting and practicing trickery and deception (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahmattinemi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhmɑttinemi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHMATTINEM(I) pret: TLAHMATTINEN to go about jesting and practicing trickery and deception / anda traveseando (C) [(1)Cf.128v]. C gives the additional gloss ‘to practice a specialty’ which goes back directly to IHMAT(I) rather than to TLAHMAT(I). See TLAHMAT(I), NEM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 261.