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tlahuancatequitl.

Headword: 
tlahuancatequitl.
Principal English Translation: 

drunkenness seen as an occupation (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlāhuāncātequitl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwɑːnkɑːtekitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀHUĀNCĀTEQUI-TL possessed form: -TEQUIUH drunkenness seen as an occupation / vuestra ocupación de borrachera (C for second pers. plural possessor) [(1)Cf.114r]. This is attested as slip of the tongue or pun on TLAHTOHCĀTEQUI-TL ‘occupation of governing.’ See TLĀHUĀNQUI, TEQUI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens