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atataca.

Headword: 
atataca.
Principal English Translation: 

to do excavation related to water works
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 78, note 2.

IPAspelling: 
ɑːtɑtɑkɑ
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh y[n] peuh atatacoc yn icaltepotzco S[a]n Fran[cis]co ytzonquiçalizp[an] yn abrilis de 1567 a[ñ]os = Y se empezó a cavar en el agua, a espaldas de la casa de San Francisco, a fines de abril de 1567 (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 162.

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