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palactic.

Headword: 
palactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something rotten (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
palāctic
IPAspelling: 
pɑlɑːktik
Frances Karttunen: 

PALĀCTIC something rotten / podrido, pudrido (Z) [(2)Zp.100,181]. By general rule the vowel of the second syllable should be short, but is attested as long in Z. See PALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 185.