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tlacempanahuia.

Headword: 
tlacempanahuia.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlacempanauia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑsempɑnɑwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacempanauia. cosa que excede y sobrepuja a todo lo demas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACEMPANAHUIĀ to be superlative in some quality / cosa que excede y sobrepuja a toda lo demás (M) [(5)Cf.88r,88v]. See CEM, PANAHUIĀ.

TLACEMPANAHUILIĀ applic. TLACEMPANAHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.