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tlapepentli.

Headword: 
tlapepentli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpehpentɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapepentli. cosa escogida assi, o cosas halladas que las perdieron o se les cayeron a otros.
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: 

TLAPEHPEN-TLI something picked, selected, elected / cosa escogida… o cosas halladas que las pedieron o se les cayeron a otros (M) [(1)Cf.46v, (3)Rp.40,121]. See PEHPEN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 291.