palli.

Headword: 
palli.
Principal English Translation: 

black clay used in dying cloth (see Karttunen); also, the color black (see Gordon Whittaker, Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 189)

IPAspelling: 
pɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

palli. barro negro para teñir ropa.
71m2-79r. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PAL-LI black clay used in dying cloth / barro negro para teñir ropa (M) This is indirectly attested in TLAPAL-LI 'dye.' The verb PĀ 'to dye something' has a long vowel, while the corresponding vowel of TLAPAL-LI is short. By analogy, the vowel of PAL-LI is probably also short, but T has ĪXPAHPĀL-LI 'blind,' also derived from PĀ and with the reflex of a long vowel. See PĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 186.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ytlal ocatca Zezilia Palton = las tierras que eran de Cecilia Palton (Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 211.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing