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macehualtlacatl.

Headword: 
macehualtlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

indigenous Mexican (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mācēhualtlācatl
IPAspelling: 
mɑːseːwɑltɬɑːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀCĒHUALTLĀCA-TL indigenous Mexican / hombre mexicano, indígena azteca (T) [(1)Tp.165]. See MĀCĒHUAL-LI, TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 127.

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity