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tlacualo.

Headword: 
tlacualo.
Principal English Translation: 

one eats; there is eating; people eat (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacualō, tlaqualo
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑloː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUALŌ The expected nonactive form of TLACUĀ ‘to eat’ would be TLACUĀLŌ, but it is attested with a short vowel in the second syllable except in Z.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 257.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking