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tlachcua.

Headword: 
tlachcua.
Principal English Translation: 

to dig holes, to excavate (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachcua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃkwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACHCUA to dig holes, to excavate / mina (Z) [(2)Zp.84,205]. See (I)CHCUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.