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tlaopochcopa.

Headword: 
tlaopochcopa.
Principal English Translation: 

at, to the left hand (see Karttunen); or, on the left (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaōpōchcopa
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑoːpoːtʃkopɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAŌPŌCHCOPA at, to the left hand / a mano izquierda o hacia la mano izquierda (M) [(1)Cf.94v]. See –ŌPŌCHCOPA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh ynic nican moquixtique palacio. tlahtohuani Don luis de velasco. yn inehuantzin arçobispo. ynic netloc mantiaque. ye tlaopochcopa ycatia. yn arçobispo. ypan cecentetl. yn cauallotzin. ye tlamayecamcopa yhcatia yn tlahtohuani Don Luis de velasco. yn ixquich ica vmpa yc mocautzinoto. S.ta Ana. = And when the ruler don Luisde Velasco and the archbishop left the palace here together, going along next to each other, each of them on one of this horses, the archbishop went on the left; the ruler don Luisde de Velasco went on the right, until they stopped at Santa Ana (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 176–177.

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