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tlalpopoxoa.

Headword: 
tlalpopoxoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to roll about in the dirt as birds do (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālpohpoxoā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlpohpoʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLPOHPOXOĀ vrefl to roll about in the dirt as birds do / se revuelca en la tierra (p. ej. gallina) (T) [(1)Tp.161]. See TLĀL-LI, POHPOXOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.