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tlapololli.

Headword: 
tlapololli.
Principal English Translation: 

something lost, destroyed, etc.

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 238.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoloːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapololli. barro amasado, o aparejado para hazer loza, o pared. &c. o tierra conquistada por guerra, o cosa que se perdio y la hallaron despues.
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.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

patientive noun from poloa. 238

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