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tlapaca.

Headword: 
tlapaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to do the laundry (see Karttunen), to wash

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapāca
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĀC(A) to do the laundry, washing / he lavado (C for first pers. sg. subject, perfect) [(1)Cf.31v]. See PĀC(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlapaca in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ica in cihuatl amo oquimatia tlen quichihuaz omomamaitohuaya tetixiliz, tetlapaquiliz, tlaxcaloz. = Como la mujer no sabía que hacer, andaba ofreciéndose de casa en casa para moler, lavar, hacer tortillas. (s. XX, Milpa Alta)
Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 36–37.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Textiles, Clothing