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red amaranth (see Molina)

tɬɑpɑlwɑːʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalhuāx

a type of fruit-bearing tree (see Karttunen)

tɬɑhpɑlwiɑ

to greet another person; or, to put colors into what one is painting (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalhujtzili, tlapalhuitzili

Rufous Hummingbird (see Hunn, attestations)

tɬɑpɑːliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapāliā

to dye something for someone (see Karttunen)

tɬɑhpɑliwi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapaliui, tlapalivi

a young man, or a man who works and plows the land (see Molina); a field hand, a worker, a rural commoner (see attestations)

tɬɑhpɑliwistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahpalihuiztli

an expenditure of effort (see Karttunen)

hurriedly or strongly, and in a manly way (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapaliuhcauia

to acquire with hard work that which is necessary for living (see Molina)

the age of men who have reached majority (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlapalizquixotzin, Tlapalizquixochtzin

daughter of Matlaccoatl (a ruler of Ecatepec); she had the name of a fragrant tropical flower (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 100–101.

tɬɑpɑːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalacuilo

a painter; or, a painter who uses red paint
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlapallacuilo/187780

to paint; or, to paint [or write] with red paint or with colors
See the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing the Florentine Codex, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlapallacuiloa/70789

a medium or substance (pigment) for painting something with colors (see attestations)

on a colored painting or writing, a plan or map (see Sahagún)

painters with color

a books of paintings

Miguel León-Portilla, "Un testimonio de Sahagún aprovechado por Chimalpahin," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 95–129; see p. 119.

tɬɑpɑllɑteʃtɬi

colorants that have been ground for use in painting

to set a good example (a metaphor); literally I set down the paint and the ink, the red paint, the black ink (see Molina)