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tlapaliztli.

Headword: 
tlapaliztli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapaliztli. el acto de teñir alguna ropa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĀLIZ-TLI the art of dyeing / el acto de teñir alguna ropa (M) [(1)Bf.10v]. B marks the vowels of the second and third syllables both long but then indicates that the diacritic over the I is incorrect. See PĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 289.