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tlacpatatli.

Headword: 
tlacpatatli.
Principal English Translation: 

stepfather

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkpɑtɑhtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacpatatli. padrastro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

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Attestations from sources in English: 

Tlacpatatli, tlacpauitequini, motepiltzintiani, tetlanaquini, amo tlatziuhcanequini, tlacpauitecqui = Stepfather, [He is] one who has stepchildren, who adopts children; one who provides support, who works steadily, who accepts his stepchildren as his own. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 9.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent