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tlapepenalli.

Headword: 
tlapepenalli.
Principal English Translation: 

something picked, selected, chosen, elected (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpehpenɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapepenalli. cosa elegida assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPEHPENAL-LI something picked, selected, elected / cosa elegida (M) [(1)Cf.46v, (3)Rp.40,121]. This also appears in P with the glottal stop marked. See PEHPEN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 291.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Miguel de Çeli amo tlapepetl ocçe yn tlapepenalli = Miguel de Celis, que no fue elegido, otro era el elegido (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 540–541.

themes: 
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