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tlapoctemi.

Headword: 
tlapoctemi.
Principal English Translation: 

for a place to fill up with smoke (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapōctēmi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoːkteːmi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPŌCTĒM(I) pret: TLAPŌCTĒN for a place to fill up with smoke / se llena de humo, lleno de humo (T), humea, está lleno de humo (Z) [(1)Tp.235, (2)Zp.69,213]. See PŌCTĒM(I).

POCTĒM(I) See TLAPŌCTĒM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.