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tzatzacua.

Headword: 
tzatzacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to shut in, put in jail
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

to enclose, to fence in (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzatzaqua
Alonso de Molina: 

tzatzaqua. nino. (pret. oninotzatzacu.) encerrarse en alguna camara, o en otra parte.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

tzatzaqua. nite. (pret. onitetzatzacu.) encerrar o encarcelar y recoger a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

tzatzaqua. nitla. (pret. onitlatzatzacu.) cerrar las puertas o las ventanas, o ensilar o encerrar mayz o trigo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZAHTZACU(A) vrefl,vt to enclose or lock up someone or something / encerrarse en alguna cámara o en otra parte (M), encerrar o encarcelar y recoger a otro (M), cerrar las puertas o las ventanas, o ensilar o encerrar maiz o trigo (M) [(3)Tp.213]. redup. TZACU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 310.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 2: ōnictzahtzauc, reduplicated form of tzaqua.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quiyotepec oncan ualtzatzaqualoto oncan quintlatepeualtique oncan quitepeualtique epixtl coyocatlatl = Allá en Quiyotepec fue a cercar, allá conquistan, allá conquistaron a Epixtl [o Epixtli] coyocatlatl (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 139.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment