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xaxacachtic.

Headword: 
xaxacachtic.
Principal English Translation: 

rough, rugged, craggy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xaxacachtic
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑʃɑkɑtʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

XAXACACHTIC rough, rugged, craggy / rasposo, escabroso, áspero, burdo (Z) [(4)Zp.15,54,105,228].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 322.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents xaxacachtic in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xaxacachtic = martajado, rasposo, áspero
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citando a Tzinacapan (1984). https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xaxacachtic/184332

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