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tlalpachoa.

Headword: 
tlalpachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to cover something up with earth, or to bury something or someone under a mound (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlpɑtʃoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalpachoa. nitla. (pret. onitlatlalpacho.) cubrir algo con tierra, o aporcar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLPACHOĀ vrefl, vt to be buried; to bury something, someone / se entierra, se sepulta (T), cubrir algo con tierra o aporcar (M), lo sepulta, lo entierra (T) [(6)Tp.161,211]. See TLĀL-LI, PACHOĀ.

TLĀLPACHILHUIĀ applic. TLĀLPACHOĀ.

TLĀLPACHŌLŌ nonact. TLĀLPACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 276.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlalpachoa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

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