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tlapachoqui.

Headword: 
tlapachoqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a setting hen, brooding hen (see Karttunen); or, one who rules and governs (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑtʃohki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapachoqui. gallina clueca, que esta sobre los hueuos, o el que rige y gouierna.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPACHOHQUI setting hen, brooding hen / gallina que está sobre los huevos o la que cría pollos (M for tlapacho), clueca (Z) [(2)Zp.28,183]. See TLAPACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance