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tlapepena.

Headword: 
tlapepena.
Principal English Translation: 

to select the best from a quantity of things (such as seeds) (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapehpena
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpehpenɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPEHPEN(A) vt to select the best from a quantity of things (such as seeds) / escoge semilas (lo bueno de entre todo) (T) [(3)Tp.209, (4)Xp.76]. X has this TLAPEHPENIĀ. See PEHPEN(A).

TLAPEHPENILIĀ applic. TLAPEHPEN(A).

TLAPEHPENALŌ nonact. TLAPEHPEN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 291.