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tlachicqui.

Headword: 
tlachicqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a seller of alcoholic beverages (see attestations); someone who collects unfermented maguey sap (tlachique) as a beverage (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahchicqui, tlachiqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtʃikki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHCHICQU(I) someone who collects unfermented maguey sap (tlachique) as a beverage / oficiales encargados de raspar el maguey y preparar el pulque que se daba a beber durante las ceremonias religiosas consagradas al dios (S for plural), tlachiquero (Z) [(2)Zp.123,207]. See (I)HCHIQU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 260.

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