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tlapopoyahui.

Headword: 
tlapopoyahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to get dark (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapōpoyāhui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoːpoyɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPŌPOYĀHU(I) to get dark / se obscurece (T for compound with ĪX-TLI) [(1)Tp.137]. T also has POPOYACTIC ‘gray, dark, cloudy,’ and M has tlapoyahua for ‘for night to fall.’ See POYĀHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.