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cacapaca.

Headword: 
cacapaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to make noises by walking

IPAspelling: 
kɑkɑpɑkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cacapaca. ni. (pret. ocacapacac.) sonar las chinelas o alcorques quando andan con ellas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CACAPACA to make a slapping sound / sonar las chinelas o alcorques cuando andan con ellas (M) [(1)Cf.74r]. See CAPĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cacapaca.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to make loud sounds with one’s feet when walking.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
ni. Macehualli zo tlapiyalli caquizti chicahuac campa nehnentiuh. “Pan cempohualli tonatiuh tlen noviempreh momachtianih caquizti quen cacapacah quemman tlayahualoah pan ininpilaltepeuh. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
A. ni. Una persona y un animal domestico se para fuerte cuando camina y se escucha lejos. “Los estudiantes cuando marchan zapatean fuerte para que se escuche lo que hacen”.
IDIEZ morfología: 
capāni (tlaomp. )
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach1.