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topilecahua.

Headword: 
topilecahua.
Principal English Translation: 

chief of constables ( see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōpīlehcāhuah
IPAspelling: 
toːpiːlehkɑːwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌPĪLEHCĀHUAH chief of constables / el señor de alguaciles (C) [(1)Cf.56r]. This also appears in P with the internal glottal stop marked but not the long vowels. See TŌPĪLEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 247.

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