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tetlapopolhuiliztli.

Headword: 
tetlapopolhuiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a pardon or a dispensation made for another person

IPAspelling: 
teːtɬɑpohpolwilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tetlapopolhuiliztli. perdon o dispensacion hecha a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 109r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTLAPOHPOLHUILIZ-TLI the act of pardon / perdón o dispensación hecha a otro (M) [(3)Cf.48r,48v,59v]. See POHPOLHUILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 236.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhuan in mochtin notahuan nonanhuan nitlanililia tetlapopolhuiliztli = y suplico a todos los señores principales desta república de indios, así a hombres como a mujeres, el que me perdonen (Cuautitlan, Tepozotlan, 1639)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 210–211.