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cacapolla.

Headword: 
cacapolla.
Principal English Translation: 

place where there are cherry orchards (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cahcapollah
IPAspelling: 
kɑhkɑpollɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

CAHCAPOLLAH place where there are cherry orchards / cerezales (C) [(1)Cf.72r]. This is given by C as the plural of CAPOLLAH ‘cherry orchard.’ Strictly speaking, it is the reduplicated stem of CAPOL-IN ‘cherry tree’ bound to -TLAH ‘place where the relevant thing is found in abundance.’ See CAPOL-IN, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.