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.