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topco.

Headword: 
topco.
Principal English Translation: 

secret(s), something hidden (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
toːpko
Attestations from sources in English: 

ca onontlachix in topco, petlacalco = What I have seen is a secret.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 60.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yhuan ma no cana tetopco, tepetlacalco = Y tampoco en algún lugar, en el cofre de las personas
Huehuehtlahtolli. Testimonios de la antigua palabra, ed. Librado Silva Galeana y un estudio introductorio por Miguel León-Portilla (México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991), 70, 71.