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tlacoyanilpia.

Headword: 
tlacoyanilpia.
Principal English Translation: 

to gird oneself, to wrap one’s skirt and secure it with a sash (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahcoyānilpiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhkoyɑːnilpiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHCOYĀNILPIĀ vrefl to gird oneself, to wrap one’s skirt and secure it with a sash / se faja (Z) [(2)Zp.59,173]. See TLAHCOYĀN, (I)LPIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 260.