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intlacacan.

Headword: 
intlacacan.
Principal English Translation: 

if nowhere

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), 220.

IPAspelling: 
intɬɑːkɑkɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

intlacacan. si en ninguna parte. s. os oluidaredes de dios. et sic de alijs.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 39r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

intlācahcān, combination of particle and negative locative expression. intlā, c(a) "ligature," ahcān. This word may actually be intlācacān, like intlācamo. 220