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tlacauhtli.

Headword: 
tlacauhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

space, capacity, something relinquished or left over (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacāuhtli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkɑːwtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacauhtli. espacio de lugar, o cosa dexada, o sobras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACĀUH-TLI space, capacity, something relinquished or left over / espacio de lugar, o cosa dejada o sobras (M) [(6)Zp.25,55,77,204]. See CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 253.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ya huecauh tlacauhtli çacatlalli = hace tiempo abandonada y enzacatada (Amecameca, 1625)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 170–171.