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tlacualchihua.

Headword: 
tlacualchihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to prepare food (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacualchīhua, tlaqualchihua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑltʃiːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUALCHĪHU(A) to prepare food / hace comida (T) [(6)Tp.207,229,(2)Zp.29,205]. M has reduplicated tlaqualchichiua with the same sense. See TLACUAL-LI, CHĪHU(A).

TLACUALCHĪHUALŌ nonact. TLACUALCHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 257.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ichpuchtlapalivi. yq'ti. tzava. tlaqualchioa = Maiden of marriagable age: She weaves, she spins, she prepares food (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 252.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking