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tepitonihui.

Headword: 
tepitonihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to become small

Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 135.

Orthographic Variants: 
tepitoniui
IPAspelling: 
tepitoːniwi
Alonso de Molina: 

tepitoniui. ni. (pret. onitepitoniuh.) tornarse pequeño, o chico.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.