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tlepochehua.

Headword: 
tlepochehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to blacken something, to smut something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlepōchēhua
IPAspelling: 
tɬepoːtʃeːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLEPŌCHĒHU(A) vt to blacken something, to smut something / lo tizna (T) [(3)Tp.211]. See TLE-TL, PŌCHĒHU(A).

TLEPŌCHĒHUILIĀ applic. TLEPŌCHĒHU(A).

TLEPŌCHĒHUALŌ nonact. TLEPŌCHĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 308.

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