TLACUĀTZIN opossum / tlacuache, zarigüeya (T) [(1)Tp.229,(3)Zp.103,123,205,(3)Xp.90]. T has a short vowel in the second syllable, while Z marks it long, as it should be if derived from the verb CUĀ ‘to eat something’ Z gives this for ‘opossum’ and also for ‘porcupine’. M has tlaquatl ‘a type of animal.’ See TLACUĀNI, CUĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 258.