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tlapatlahua.

Headword: 
tlapatlahua.
Principal English Translation: 

it widens; one who widens or expands something (see Molina); also, the verb to withdraw or move away (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapatlaua
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapatlaua. el que ensancha alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

to withdraw / se aleja ... se retira (Z) [(2)Zp.,8, 212]
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 290.