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tlapalantli.

Headword: 
tlapalantli.
Principal English Translation: 

rot, filth, manure (see Karttunen); fertilizer

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalāntli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑlɑːntɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPALĀN-TLI rot, filth, manure / estiércol, suciedad, abono (Z) [(7)Zp.3,57,118,212]. M has tlapalanaltiliztli ‘venereal disease.’ See PALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 289.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tapalan = abono
Keman tikpipixoh in tapalan? = Cuando regaste el abono (orgánico)?
(Nahuatl contemporaneo de Atenpan, Puebla)
Facebook, 7 noviembre 2020. https://www.facebook.com/Nahuatl.Atenpan/videos/2878219499065698