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tlapihuiya.

Headword: 
tlapihuiya.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to grow, enlarge, multiply (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapīhuiya
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpiːwiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĪHUIY(A) pret: TLAPĪHUIX~TLAPĪHUIYAC for something to grow, enlarge, multiply / crecer o aumentarse y multiplicarse alguna cosa (M) B attests this once and specifically marks the vowel of the second syllable short (f.9v), but it is abundantly attested in T with a long vowel, and it is also long in T’s PĪHUIC ‘something added in over and above what is paid for.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 291.