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tlapolihui.

Headword: 
tlapolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for all to be lost (see karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoliwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOLIHU(I) for all to be lost / todo se pierde (C) [(1)Cf.36v]. M has this in a phrase about starvation and thirst. See POLIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Tlapolihui = 'things get lost'
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 141.