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tetlapololtia.

Headword: 
tetlapololtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to perplex, bewilder, or disturb someone (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh cuix hamo çenca tetlapololti, yhuā cuix hamo tetzauitl = And it is not confusing and is it not a scandal (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 214–215.