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tlacahua.

Headword: 
tlacahua.
Principal English Translation: 

a master, someone who owns or employs other people, a slave owner (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācahuah
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑwɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacaua. señor o dueño de esclauos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCAHUAH master, someone who owns or employs other people / señor o dueño de esclavos (M), señor, hombre que tiene criados (R) [(1)Rp.139]. See TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 251.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Slavery
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites