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tlacencahua.

Headword: 
tlacencahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to adorn something; to arrange things; to prepare something or get it ready; to dress someone

Alonso de Molina: 

Tlacencauhtli. cosa adreçada y aparejada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 116v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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