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tepitzahui.

Headword: 
tepitzahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to harden something (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepitzaui
IPAspelling: 
tepiːtsɑwi
Alonso de Molina: 

tepitzaui. (pret. otepitzauh.) endurecerse alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPĪTZAHU(I) for something to become tough, hardened / endurecerse alguna cosa (M) [(1)Tp.225). See TEPĪTZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 230.