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tlacoti.

Headword: 
tlacoti.
Principal English Translation: 

to work like an enslaved person; to serve as an enslaved person

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkohti
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacoti. ni. (pret. onitlacotic.) trabajar como esclauo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCOHTI to serve, to be a slave / trabajar como esclavo (M) [(1)Bf.6r,(3)Cf.58v,66v (2)Rp.46,140]. See TLĀCOH-TLI.

TLĀCOHTILIĀ applic. TLĀCOHTI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 255.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Slavery
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites