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tlacahuapahuani.

Headword: 
tlacahuapahuani.
Principal English Translation: 

a tutor or instructor of children (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācahuapāhuani
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑwɑpɑːwɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAHUAPĀHUANI tutor, instructor of children / el que las (personas) cría (C) [(1)Cf.44v]. M has tlacauapauhqui with the same sense. See TLĀCAHUAPĀHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.