to pretend to be brave, to put up a brave front (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlahtlācanequi
IPAspelling:
tɬɑhtɬɑːkɑneki
Frances Karttunen:
TLAHTLĀCANEQU(I) vrefl; pret: TLAHTLĀCANEC to pretend to be brave, to put up a brave front / se hace valiente (Z) [(2)Zp.127,173]. M has unreduplicated /262/ reflexive tlacanequi with –TECH ‘to have faith in someone.’ See TLĀCA-TL, NEQU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 263.