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tlatzcueponilia.

Headword: 
tlatzcueponilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to beat something or someone hard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatzcuepōniliā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtskwepoːniliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZCUEPŌNILIĀ vt to beat something or someone hard / le pega fuerte (T) [(3)Tp.210]. See TLATZĪN(I), CUEPŌNIĀ.

TLATZCUEPŌNILILIĀ applic. TLATZCUEPŌNILIĀ.

TLATZCUEPŌNILĪLŌ nonact. TLATZCUEPŌNILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 301.