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tlapepenani.

Headword: 
tlapepenani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who chooses, or one who collects things, choosing carefully (see Molina); or, one who is chosen (see Sahagún)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 47.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpehpenɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapepenani. escogedor o recogedor tal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlapepenani, tlacecenquixtiani = She is of the chosen; she is one of the chosen few. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 47.