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tlapacholli.

Headword: 
tlapacholli.
Principal English Translation: 

a subject, ruled and governed (see Molina); or, something which is ruled, pressed down, oppressed (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑtʃoːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapacholli. subdito, regido y gouernado, o cosa apezgada y apreteda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPACHŌL-LI subject, someone or something which is ruled, pressed down, oppressed / súbdito, regido o gobernado, o cosa apesgada y apretada (M) [(1)Cf.87v]. See PACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance