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calecatzintli.

Headword: 
calecatzintli.
Principal English Translation: 

guardian of the household (honorific) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
calehcātzintli, calecatzin
IPAspelling: 
kɑlehkɑːtsintɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CALEHCĀTZIN-TLI guardian of the household (honorific) / cuidador de la casa (T) [(1)Tp.113]. T has I for E. See CALEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.