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cacalachtli.

Headword: 
cacalachtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a rattle (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cacalachtli
IPAspelling: 
kɑkɑlɑtʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

cacalachtli. caxcauel de barro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CACALACH-TLI pl: MEH~-TIN rattle / cascabel de barro (M), sonaja (T), su cascabel (de víbora) (T) See CACALACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.