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to make a loud, high-pitched laugh.
# 1. una persona la que tiene dinero grande lo cambia con dinero chiquito. “Priscila siempre cambia porque los que le compra siempre les da el dinero grande”. 2. Una persona se rie fuerte y le lleva delgadito. “cuando María esta en su casa se rie con su mamá porque no le preocupa nada”.
tɬɑpitsɑːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapitzaualiztli

a song; or, the shaping or thinning of a piece of wood (into a staff, rod, etc.?) (see Molina)

tɬɑpitsɑːwɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapizaualli

a piece of wood that has been shaped, thinned (into a staff, rod, etc.) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlapitzaoaian

the place near Mexico Tenochtitlan where the ritual representative of Tezcatlipoca was sacrificed in the month of Toxcatl; part of his role was to play the flute, which enters into the place name
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 68.

tɬɑpiːtsɑlistɬi

the act of playing a flute or similar instrument; or, the act of melting metals (see Molina)

tɬɑpiːtsɑlli

wind instrument(s), flutes; the blowing of wind instruments; also, a cast metal object
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 61.

a whistle or wind instrument.
tɬɑpiːtsɑlo
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapisalo

flutes are blown; musical instruments are blown; shell trumpets are blown; there is a blowing of shell trumpets; trumpets are blown; there is blowing (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
R. Joe Campbell, Florentine Codex Vocabulary, 1997; http://www2.potsdam.edu/schwaljf/Nahuatl/florent.txt

tɬɑpiːtsɑloːni

a melting pot for melting down gold (see Molina); a flute (Karttunen)

the place where flutes are played; or, the place where metals are melted down (see Molina)

the horn of a flute, a chirimía, or of a trumpet (see Molina)

to sprinkle (when it rains).
# llueve muy poco. “Ahora no vamos a salir porque está chispeando y hace frío”.

a piece of wood that has been worked (shaped, thinned) (see Molina)

tɬɑpiːtskɑːn
tɬɑpitswiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapitzhuiā

to make a high pitched sound like an alarmed turkey or a crying child (see Karttunen)

tɬɑpitsiːnilistɬi
tɬɑpitsoteyoh
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapitzoteyoh

ugly place (see karttunen)

tɬɑpitsoːteyoh

narrow place (see karttunen)

tɬɑpitsotiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapitzotiā

to become ugly (see karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapizqui

a musician, one who plays a flute or a trumpet; or, one who melts ore for metals (see Molina)