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tocapatla.

Headword: 
tocapatla.
Principal English Translation: 

to change one's name; to rename someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōcāpatla
IPAspelling: 
toːkɑːpɑtɬɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌCĀPATLA vrefl,vt to change one's name; to rename someone / se cambia el nombre cuando se casa la mujer por lo civil o por la iglesia o por los dos (T), le cambia su nombre (T) [(6)Tp.171,213]. See TŌCA(I)-TL, PATLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 242.

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