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cuauhcamac.

Headword: 
cuauhcamac.
Principal English Translation: 

forest (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑwkɑmɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHCAMAC forest / lugar de árboles, arboledo, bosque, selva (T) [(1)Tp.119]. M has quauhcamac with the sense of ‘fissure or knothole in wood.’ See CUAHU(I)-TL, -CAMAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.

themes: 
Landscape Features
Plants, Trees, Flora
Wood, wooden material