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tlalcuepa.

Headword: 
tlalcuepa.
Principal English Translation: 

to turn to dust (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcuepa
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlkwepɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLCUEP(A) vrefl to turn to dust / se vuelve como tierra (Z) [(1)Zp.173]. M has the derived form tlacuepalli ‘worn-out soil.’ See TLĀ-LI, CUEP(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 274.