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tlapalihuiztli.

Headword: 
tlapalihuiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

an expenditure of effort (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahpalihuiztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhpɑliwistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHPALIHUIZ-TLI expenditure of effort / mucho cuidado (C) [(1)Cf.112r]. M has tlapaliuhcauia ‘to earn one’s subsistence by labor.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 262.