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tzinpehualtia.

Headword: 
tzinpehualtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to begin something from scratch (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzīnpēhualtiā
IPAspelling: 
tsiːnpeːwɑltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪNPĒHUALTIĀ vt to begin something from scratch / apenas lo comienza (Z) [(2)Zp.30,199]. See TZĪN-TLI, PĒHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 313.