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tlapitzaloni.

Headword: 
tlapitzaloni.
Principal English Translation: 

a melting pot for melting down gold (see Molina); a flute (Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpiːtsɑloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapitzaloni. crisol para fundir oro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĪTZALŌNI flute; crucible / flauta (Z), crisol para fundir oro (M) [(2)Zp.60,213]. The literal sense these share is of something worked by blowing into it. See PĪTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.

themes: 
Metals, Mining
Music, Song, Dance
Technology, Tools
See also: 
pitza.