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macayac.

Headword: 
macayac.
Principal English Translation: 

let no one

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 223.

IPAspelling: 
mɑːkɑjɑːk
Alonso de Molina: 

Macayac yca ximocacayaua. no engañes ni burles anadie.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 50r.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

combined particle and indefinite pronoun. mā, c(a) "ligature," ayāc. 223
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 223.