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tepotlamia.

Headword: 
tepotlamia.
Principal English Translation: 

to trip without falling to the ground (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tepoːtɬɑmiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tepotlamia. nino. (pret. oninotepotlami.) tropezar sin caer enel suelo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPŌTLAMIĀ vrefl to stumble / tropezar sin caer en el suelo (M) [(1)Cf.94r,(3)Tp.158,(2)Zp.126,174]. C fails to mark the vowel of the second syllable long, but it is given as long in T and Z:

TEPŌTLAMĪLŌ nonact. TEPŌTLAMIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 231.