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tapayoltic.

Headword: 
tapayoltic.
Principal English Translation: 

something round like a ball (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɑpɑyoltik
Alonso de Molina: 

tapayoltic. cosa redonda como pelota, o bola.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 91r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TAPAYOLTIC something round like a ball, something broken out in bumps / cosa redonda como pelota o bola (M), boludo (T) [(2)Tp.165,224].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 215.