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tlacahua.

Headword: 
tlacahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to get messed up, damaged; to pay rent or tribute to the person to whom it is owed

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacaua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacaua. non. (pret. onontlacauh.) acudir con la renta o tributo, a quien se deue.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh ynic cenchinampa yn culhuacan yn cuitlahuac. oc cenca vmpa yn ciudad xochimilco yn tlatlacauh = And in the whole chinampa district, in Colhuacan and Cuitlahuac and especially in the city of Xochimilco, there was damage (central Mexico, 1611)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 188–9.

themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Tributes, Taxation, Service