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tlapohuia.

Headword: 
tlapohuia.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapouia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoːwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapouia. nite. (pret. onitetlapoui.) echar suertes a otro el hechizero o agorero con mayz. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPŌHUIĀ vt to relate something to someone, to testify about someone, to cast fortunes / le cuenta (un suceso) (Z), testifica (Z), echar suertes a otro el hechicero o agorero con maíz (M) [(4)Zp.33,122,196,222]. applic. TLAPŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.