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tlayacancauh.

Headword: 
tlayacancauh.
Principal English Translation: 

constable, a member of the town council; in Spanish, an alguacil or a regidor (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayacāncāuh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑyɑkɑːnkɑːw
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAYACĀNCĀUH constable, councilman / alguacil, regidor (Z) [(1)Zp.218]. See TLAYACĀNQUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 304.