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tlacanexquimilli.

Headword: 
tlacanexquimilli.
Principal English Translation: 

a ghost

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑneːʃkimilli
Attestations from sources in English: 

See also Sahagún, Historia, Part VI (Book 5), 77–78, for the discussion that says this was a disguise of Tezcatlipoca.

tlacanexquimilli = a ghost
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 175.