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tlatlalchipahua.

Headword: 
tlatlalchipahua.
Principal English Translation: 

for dawn to break, for things to get light (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatlalchipaua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑːltʃipɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlalchipaua. alborear o amanecer.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 137v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATLĀLCHIPĀHUA for dawn to break, to get light / alborear o amanecer (M) [(1)Cf.95v]. See TLĀL-LI, CHIPĀHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 298.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

momiquili ye tlatlalchipahua = murió al aclarar el dĺa (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 412–413.