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tlacuauhtlamati.

Headword: 
tlacuauhtlamati.
Principal English Translation: 

to be certain, confident, firm in one’s belief (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuāuhtalamati
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑːwtɑlɑmɑti
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUĀUHTLAMAT(I) pret: TLACUĀUHTLAMAH, pret. pl: TLACUĀUHTLAMATQUEH to be certain, confident, firm in one’s belief / tiene confianza, lo confía (Z) [(7)Zp.32,56,59,121,205]. M has this with –TECH ‘to depend on or have confidence in someone.’ See TLACUĀUH, TLAMAT(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 258.