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.