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camactic.

Headword: 
camactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something tender and newborn, like an ear of corn that has not been seasoned or dried (see Molina); something fresh, like a newly harvested crop (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑmɑktik
Alonso de Molina: 

camactic. cosa tierna y reziente, como la mazorca de mayz antes que este del todo sazonada y seca. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAMACTIC something fresh, like a newly harvested crop / cosa tierna y reciente, como la mazorca de maiz antes que esta del todo sazonada y seca (M), entre verde y seco, esta humedo , esta recien cortado (frijol, mazorca, etc.) (T) [(1)Tp.113]. See CAMĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 23.