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tlaitlapoa.

Headword: 
tlaitlapoa.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to open (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaihtlapōa
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑihtɬɑpoːɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAIHTLAPŌA for something to open / abre (la puerta, la casa) (T) [(3)Tp.230]. T fails to mark the I short, but it must be so before the glottal stop. T also gives a nonactive form of this appropriate to a verb ending in OHUA rather than OĀ. See TLAPOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 272.