TLAPALLOH something splattered, painted / manchado, pintado (Z) [(3)Zp.81,98,212]. M has tlapalloa ‘something dyed in colors.’ T has a possessed form which is ambiguous between –TLAPALYOH and –TLAPALYŌ meaning ‘one’s color, tint, hue.’ The LY sequence would optionally assimilate to yield either –TLAPALLOH, as here, or –TLAPALLŌ, which would be identical to the inalienably possessed form of TLAPAL-LI ‘dye, ink.’ See TLAPAL-LI, -YOH. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 289.