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cacanatzin.

Headword: 
cacanatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

something thin (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cācanatzin
IPAspelling: 
kɑːkɑnɑtsin
Frances Karttunen: 

CĀCANATZIN something thin / (cosa) delgada (T) [(1)Tp.117]. See CANACTIC, CANĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.