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tlapololiztli.

Headword: 
tlapololiztli.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoloːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapololiztli. el acto de perder alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOLŌLIZ-TLI loss / el acto de perder alguna cosa (M), locura, confusión (Z for compound with CUĀ(I)-TL) [(3)Zp.32,77,147]. See POLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.