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tlatoqui.

Headword: 
tlatoqui.
Principal English Translation: 

ruler (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtohqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtohki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTOHQUI possessed form: -TLAHTOHCĀUH ruler/ señores, caciques, o principales (M for plural) This is abundantly attested but, with the exception of R and Z, not in the free-standing singular form, where TLAHTOĀNI is used instead. This item appears in the plural form TLAHTOHQUEH, the possessed singular form –TLAHTOHCĀUH, and its compounding forms TLAHTOHCĀ- and shortened –TLAHTOH. TLAHTOHQUI contrasts with TLATŌCQUI ‘sower.’ See TLAHTOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 266.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites