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tlapanco.

Headword: 
tlapanco.
Principal English Translation: 

a loft or a storage platform under a roof (see Karttunen); can also refer to the rooftop (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑnko
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapanco. enel azotea.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPANCO loft, storage platform under the roof / en el azotea (M), sarzo, tapanco (Z) [(2)Zp.119,212]. See TLAPAN-TLI, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 289–290.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

acopa[n] antlachiazque ça[n] na[n]tolozque a[n]tlatlauhtizque tlateochivalcandela anquitlatizque yuha[n] amo yuhqui anquichiuazque in otlica anmomamana y[n] cana ytla mochihua yn oqueh ammoquetza anquitta yhuan tlapa[n]co a[n]momamana yn a[n]mamapilloua. = no lo tomen como agüero, no idolatren y no vean hacia arriba, sólo bajarán la cabeza, harán rogaciones, encenderán velas benditas. Y no vayan hacer como cuando ocurre algo que en el camino se congregan, se paran a mirar y en las azoteas se juntan para estar señalando. (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), 170.