to make a high pitched sound like an alarmed turkey or a crying child (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlapitzhuiā
IPAspelling:
tɬɑpitswiɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TLAPITZHUIĀ to make a high pitched sound like an alarmed turkey or a crying child / hace ruido el guajolote al ver un gavilán, llora niño con voz delgadita (T) [(1)Tp.234). See PIPITZCA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.