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tlacahuah.

Headword: 
tlacahuah.
Principal English Translation: 

a master, someone who owns or employs other people (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacahua
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAHUAH master, someone who owns or employs other people / señor o dueño de esclavos (M), señor, hombre que tiene criados (r) [(1)Rp.139]. See TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.