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tlapa.

Headword: 
tlapa.
Principal English Translation: 

to dye (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĀ pret: TLAPAH to dye / teñir (C) [(2)Cf.32v]. In the same section C also treats the TLA- as an unfused nonspecific object prefix, TLA-PĀ ‘to dye something.’ See PĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.