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tlapiyazoa.

Headword: 
tlapiyazoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to excrete (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapiyāzoā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpiyɑːsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPIYĀZOĀ to excrete / hace el excusado, depone (T) [(3)Tp.235]. The gloss is ambiguous between urination and defecation, and moreover 'deponer' can also mean ‘to vomit.’ T has O for Ā in the third syllable. See PIYĀZOĀ.

TLAPIYĀZŌLŌ nonact. TLAPIYĀZOĀ.

TLAPIYĀZŌLTIĀ caus. TLAPIYĀZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.