a young man, or a man who works and plows the land (see Molina); a field hand, a worker, a rural commoner (see attestations)
in njmaceoalli in njtlapaliuj = I who am a commoner, a field hand (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
tlapaliuque = "literally, 'vigorous persons,'" "nonprincipales," "common men," "those who did physical labor," men "who owned no oxen and could bring only their digging sticks (huitzoctli) to communal-labor projects." At least one tlapalihui was impoverished and did not own any land, but apparently "most...did apparently have plots to call their own." (Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 17th century)
"inhua tlapalique matlaCtli pos oquihuechiuhque" = "and the working men donated ten pesos" (Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1647)
"inhua tlapalique matlaCtli pos oquihuechiuhque" = "and the working men donated ten pesos" (Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1647)
Ca njcan catquj mjtzmotiamjctilia in tlapalivi: macujltzin quachtli, ic tonmonentlamachitiz in tianqujznaoac: ic toconmonextiliz in cochcaiutl, in neuhcaiutl: in chiltzintli, in jztatzintli, in ocotzintlj: auh in cetzin quauhtlatzaiantzin, injc tonmotlapopuchilitiez = here the husband provideth thee with merchandise, five large cotton capes with which thou wilt negotiate at the market place, with which thou wilt procure the sustenance, the chili, the salt, the torches, and some firewood, that thou mayest prepare food (central Mexico, sixteenth century)