Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

elpampetlahua.

Headword: 
elpampetlahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to bare one's breasts; or, to bare someone someone else's breasts (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
elpampetlaua
IPAspelling: 
eːlpɑmpetɬɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

elpampetlaua. nin. (pret. oninelpan petlauh.) despechugarse, descubrirse los pechos.
elpampetlaua. nite. (pret. oniteelpan petlauh.) despechugar a otro desta manera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction