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tlamatcanemi.

Headword: 
tlamatcanemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to live quietly, peaceably (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑtkɑːnemi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamatcanemi. ni. biuir quieta, pacifica y sosgadamente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMATCĀNEM(I) pret: -NEN to live quietly, peaceably / vivir quieta, pacifica y sosegadamente (M) [(1)Zp.210]. M also has matcanemini ‘someone calm, peaceable.’ See TLAMATCĀ, NEM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 281.

See also: 
matcanemini.
tlamatca.
nemi.