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tlatequipano.

Headword: 
tlatequipano.
Principal English Translation: 

worker, servant (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatequipanoh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekipɑnoh
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatequipano. trabajador.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 136r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATEQUIPANOH worker, servant / trabajador (M), siervo, sirviente (T) [(1)Tp.236]. Because of general loss of final glottal stops in T, the glottal stop in this item is not attested, but it is predicted by regular derivational rules. See TEQUIPANOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Tributes, Taxation, Service