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tlacahuapahualli.

Headword: 
tlacahuapahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a child raised or instructed by a tutor at home (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacauapaualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑwɑpɑːwɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacauapaualli. pupilo, o niño criado en casa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAHUAPĀHUAL-LI child raised or instructed by a tutor at home /pupilo o niño criado en casa (M) [(1)Bf.2r]. See TLĀCAHUAPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Education