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tlapiyalli.

Headword: 
tlapiyalli.
Principal English Translation: 

domestic animal (see karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpiyɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPIYAL-LI pl: -MEH domestic animal / bestia, animal, ganado (doméstico) (Z) [(4)Zp.11,19,62,213]. In view of TLAHPIXTINEM(I) ‘to serve as shepherd,’ it seems that this should be TLAHPIYAL-LI, but Z has no glottal stop in any attestation. See PIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock raising