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tenchalpipi.

Headword: 
tenchalpipi.
Principal English Translation: 

to shave one's beard (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēnchalpihpī
IPAspelling: 
teːntʃɑlpihpiː
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNCHALPIHPĪ vrefl to shave one's beard / rasura la barba (T) [(3)Tp.158]. PIHPĪ literally means 'to pluck' rather than 'to shave.' See TĒNCHAL-LI, PIHPĪ.

TĒNCHALPIHPĪHUA nonact. TĒNCHALPIHPĪ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 224.