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tlapohui.

Headword: 
tlapohui.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapoui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpowi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapoui. (pret. otlapouh.) abrirse la puerta, o la carta. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOHU(I) for something to open / abrirse la puerta o la carta (M) [(4)Cf.78v,79r,99r, (2)Tp.235]. See TLAPOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.