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.