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pilalactli.

Headword: 
pilalactli.
Principal English Translation: 

boy (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pilɑlɑktɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

PILALAC-TLI pl: -MEH boy / muchacho, chamaco (T) [(2)Tp.174]. T has the variants PILAN- and PĪPILAN- in compounds. See -PIL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 195.

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