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tlapihuilia.

Headword: 
tlapihuilia.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapiuilia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpiːwiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapiuilia. nicte. (pret. onictetlapiuili.) añadir algo mas al peso, o ala medida, o el que vende barato a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĪHUILIĀ vt to add something above the amount purchased, to adjust or enlarge something / añadir algo más al peso o a la medida (M), lo ajusta, lo aumenta (T) [(3)Tp.209]. M has tlapiuia ‘for something to grow, increase, or multiply.’ applic. TLAPĪHUIY(A).

TLAPĪHUILILIĀ applic. TLAPĪHUILIĀ.

TLAPĪHUILĪLŌ nonact. TLAPĪHUILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 291.