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tetlamamacani.

Headword: 
tetlamamacani.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who serves others, distributing things/shares (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːtɬɑmɑhmɑkɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

tetlamamacani. el que sirue a otros de algo yles da recaudo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 108v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTLAMAHMACANI distributor, someone who assigns shares / el que sirve a otros de algo y les da recaudo (M), el que da repartiendo a varios (C) [(1)Cf.44r]. See MAHMACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 235.