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tlacopaca.

Headword: 
tlacopaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to bathe the upper half of one’s body (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahcopāca
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhkopɑːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHCOPĀC(A) vrefl to bathe the upper half of one’s body / baña la mitad (de la cintura para arriba) (T) [(3)Tp.159]. See TLAHCO, PĀC(A).

TLAHCOPĀCŌ nonact. TLAHCOPĀC(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 260.

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