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toyacacpa.

Headword: 
toyacacpa.
Principal English Translation: 

from or through people's noses

Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 136–7.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh yhuan ya yepohualxihuitl ypan nauhxihuitl yn ipan i. calli xihuitl 1545. años. yn toyacacpa eztli quiz. = And also, it was 64 years ago, in the year 1 House, 1545, that blood came out of people's noses. (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 136–137.

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