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tzincuepa.

Headword: 
tzincuepa.
Principal English Translation: 

to change sides; to turn something over (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzīncuepa
IPAspelling: 
tsiːnkwepɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪNCUEP(A) vrefl,vt to change sides; to turn something over / cambiar de partido (S) [(6)Tp.118,166]. In T this is attested in compounds meaning to flip oneself or something else over. See TZĪN-TLI, CUEPA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 312.