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tlaltzactic.

Headword: 
tlaltzactic.
Principal English Translation: 

clay soil, mud (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlāltzactic
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltsɑktik
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLTZACTIC clay soil, mud / barro, esta muy pegajosa la tierra (T) [(1)Tp.240]. M has tlaltzacutli ‘fuller’s earth, plaster.’ T has lost the labiality of the final consonant of the second syllable. See TLĀL-LI, TZAUC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 278.

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