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tetlapaloliztli.

Headword: 
tetlapaloliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a greeting, salutation (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teːtɬɑhpɑloːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tetlapaloliztli. salutacion.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 109r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTLAHPALŌLIZ-TLI greeting, salutation / salutación (M), saludo (en la fiesta) (T) [(1)Cf.108r,(1)Tp.227,(2)Zp.113,222]. See TLAHPALOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 235.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tetlapaloliztli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition