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tlatzacua.

Headword: 
tlatzacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to close, to make restitution, to suffer punishment for something (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsɑkwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZACU(A) to close, to make restitution, to suffer punishment for something / cierro, o pago y lasto algo (C for first pers. sg. subject), pagar por otro, expiar la falta de alguien (S) [(2)Cf.17v,62v]. See TZACU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 300.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment