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pilcac.

Headword: 
pilcac.
Principal English Translation: 

to be hanging, or to be hanged (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
pilkɑk
Alonso de Molina: 

pilcac. ni. (pret. onipilcaca.) estar colgado o ahorcado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mopillo lambra yn o[n]ca[n] tlatla açiete yn ixpa[n] pilcac S[an] Joseph = se colgó la lámpara donde se quema el aceite, la que está colgada frente a San José (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 146–147.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
War, Conflict