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tlacuanamiqui.

Headword: 
tlacuanamiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to set oneself up in opposition (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuahnāmiqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑhnɑːmiki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUAHNĀMIQU(I) pret: TLACUAHNĀMIC to set oneself up in opposition / se opone (T)[(3)Tp.229]. The prefix TLA- has been absorbed into the compound verb stem to form an intransitive verb. See CUAHNĀMIQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 257.