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tlacazcaltiani.

Headword: 
tlacazcaltiani.
Principal English Translation: 

a tutor or guardian of children (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑskɑltiɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacazcaltiani. lo mesmo es que tlacazcalti.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAZCALTIĀNI tutor, guardian of children / ama de niño, ayo o aya, o tutor (M) [(1)Cf.44v]. See TLĀCAZCALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 253.