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tlacpa.

Headword: 
tlacpa.
Principal English Translation: 

step- (a kinship term that conveys a sense of an indirect relationship, such as step-child) (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkpɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACPA- This compounding element combines with kinship terms to convey the sense of indirect relationship; TLACPACONĒ-TL ‘stepchild,’ TLACPAICHPŌCH-TLI ‘stepdaughter,’ TLACPATĒLPŌCH-TLI ‘stepson,’ TLACPAICNĪUH-TLI ‘stepbrother, stepsister,’ TLACPANĀN-TLI ‘stepmother,’ TLACPATAH-TLI ‘stepfather.’ See -TLOCPA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 256.