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tlalpolihui.

Headword: 
tlalpolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to depopulate and destroy the town with a pest or plague (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalpoliui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlpoliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalpoliui. (pret. otlalpoliuh.) despoblarse y destruirse el pueblo conpestilencia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.