to let a field go fallow, let the hay replenish without cultivating the field
Orthographic Variants:
zacacaua, çacacaua
IPAspelling:
sɑkɑkɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina:
zacacaua. nitla. (pret. onitlazacacauh.) dexar henchir de yerua la heredad, no la beneficiando. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 13r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.