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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)

tɬɑpɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapali

paint; dye; pigment or color (see Molina); often referring to the color red (see Sahagún); see also: tlapaltlacuilolli and in tlilli in tlapalli

fruit or vegetable that has two or three colors.

nobility through lineage or blood line (a metaphor)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalihuiliz

a fortune, a living, one's estate

exemption

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

tɬɑpɑlloh
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalloh

something splattered, painted (see Karttunen)

tɬɑpɑlloːtiɑː
tɬɑpɑlmetɬɑtɬ
tɬɑhpɑloɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahpaloa

to greet; stand forth and do something; to dare to do (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart); also, to moisten something

to be treated with dry color (see Sahagún)

tɬɑpɑloːlistɬi

a greeting; or, the act of dipping bread and moistening it in a broth (see Molina)

tɬɑpɑloːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalōlli

food, meal (see Karttunen)

a church expenditure(?), this term is still under investigation; seen defined as funds provided to the church by the cabildo in Cuernavaca (Robert Haskett, 2005); seen as funds to underwrite a special mass relating to Pascua de Resurreccíon (Margarita Loera y Chávez 1981); seen as funds provided to bury a pre-hispanic sculpture that frightened people (Lorenzo Ochoa, 1989); a variant, tetlapalolli, has been translated as "painted," referring to the church (Benjamin Daniel Johnson, 2018, in ed Javier Eduardo Ramírez López), but this was at the time of "Pascua Navidad," so may refer to a mass instead of painting?

tɬɑhpɑloːloːni

awkward

Thomas S. Denison, Mexican Linguistics (Chicago: T. S. Denison & Co., 1913), 80.