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tlapal.

Headword: 
tlapal.
Principal English Translation: 

a little man (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlapal = hombresito
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing a manuscript in the BnF from the eighteenth century, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlapal/15811.