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tlacuicuini.

Headword: 
tlacuicuini.
Principal English Translation: 

one who collects or sweeps up garbage; or, one who sculpts something in wood or in stone (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwihkwini
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacuicuini. lo mesmo es que tlacuicuic.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Occupations, Responsibilities
Stones, Masonry
Wood, wooden material