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papachoa.

Headword: 
papachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to massage, to press repeatedly, to pamper

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 213.

IPAspelling: 
pɑːpɑtʃoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

papachoa. nite. (pret. onitepapacho.) traer las piernas al enfermo, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 79v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PĀPACHOĀ vt to caress, massage someone / lo papacha (T) [(3)Tp.199]. See PACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 187.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh iniqu içiuh quipapachoa iztatica anoço tomatl inic quipapachoa in pipiltotonti = and for this she massaged them; she massaged the children with salt or [with] tomato (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 219.