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tɬɑkopiːnɑni
tɬɑkopiːntɬi

a container for seed, a unit of dry measure of the pre-contact era (i.e. before European colonization), larger than the Spanish fanega, and the amount of produce it will provide

tɬɑkopiːntɬi

a copy; something copied, transcribed, extracted, reproduced, etc. (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacopitzacuia
tɬɑkoːpitsɑktɬi
tɬɑkopitskɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
tlacopitzcān

narrow, constricted place (see Karttunen)

tɬɑkoːkiːʃtiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlacohquixtia

to pass small twigs through the tongue or the ears, to draw blood as a sacrifice to the deities (see Molina)
a penitential ritual that involved drawing sticks (tlacohtli) through the tongue [causing bloodletting]
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 54.

tɬɑkoːkiːʃtiːlistɬi

the passing of twigs through the tongue and ears; perforation; self-sacrifice (a pre-Columbian ceremony)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 72, 73, 198.

third oldest brother; 'teach' suggests older brother, and tlaco means middle, which led Anderson and Dibble to suggest third oldest
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 108.

tɬɑkotepitoːn

something medium sized (see Molina)

tɬɑkoteki

to cut or divide something in half (see Molina)

tɬɑkotekilispɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlacotequilizpahtli

a medicinal shrub with lots of branches, leaves that resemble the oregano, and small white flowers; known in the upper Mixteca

tɬɑːkohti

to work like an enslaved person; to serve as an enslaved person

an enslaved human being who is for sale; or, the business of trading in enslaved human beings (see Molina)

tɬɑkoːtɬ

a stick, a staff, a rod, a stalk, a switch (see Karttunen and Molina); osier twigs or maguey spines (see Sahagún attestations); relates to blood-letting self-sacrifice

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlaco

a second-born child, typically written without the absolutive (Tlaco)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacotli ciuatl

an enslaved woman (see Molina)

an enslaved man (see Molina)

tɬɑːkohtɬi

an enslaved person (for examples of the plural, see tlatlacotin) James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.