to select the best from a quantity of things (such as seeds) (see karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlapehpena
IPAspelling:
tɬɑpehpenɑ
Frances Karttunen:
TLAPEHPEN(A) vt to select the best from a quantity of things (such as seeds) / escoge semilas (lo bueno de entre todo) (T) [(3)Tp.209, (4)Xp.76]. X has this TLAPEHPENIĀ. See PEHPEN(A).
TLAPEHPENILIĀ applic. TLAPEHPEN(A).
TLAPEHPENALŌ nonact. TLAPEHPEN(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 291.