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-tlocpa.

Headword: 
-tlocpa.
Principal English Translation: 

compound postposition to the vicinity of, toward (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
-tɬokpɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

-TLOCPA compound postposition to the vicinity of, toward / hacia mí (M for first pers. sg. possessor), hacia nosotros (M for first pers. plural possessor) This appears to have some affinity of meaning to TLACPA-, an element in terms such as TLACPACONĒ-TL ‘stepchild’ TLACPATAH-TLI ‘stepfather,’ etc, See -TLOC, -PA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 308.

Attestations from sources in English: 

For -tlocpa, see Carochi p. 417.