tlacahuapahua.

Headword:

tlacahuapahua.

Principal English Translation:

to raise children or to be a tutor for children (see Molina and Karttunen); possibly also to do the work of a governess or nanny

Orthographic Variants:

tlacauapaua

IPAspelling:

tɬɑːkɑwɑpɑːwɑ

Alonso de Molina:

tlacauapaua. ni. criar niños, o ser tutor y ayo dellos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

TLĀCAHUAPĀHU(A) to raise children, to be a tutor for children / criar niños o ser tutor y ayo de ellos (M) [(4)Bf.2r,3r,9v,(1)Cf.44v]. See TLĀCA-TL, HUAPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.