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tlatlapaloa.

Headword: 
tlatlapaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to sip or taste a variety of beverages, such as wine (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑpɑloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlapaloa. ni. (pret. onitlatlapalo.) prouar muchos vinos o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 138v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLAPALOĀ to sip, taste a number of different beverages / probar muchos vinos o cosa semejante (M), probar varias bebidas y vinos, bebiendo poco de cada uno (C) [(1)Cf.71v]. This distributive form reduplicates the fused prefix TLA- instead of the verb stem itself. See PALOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 265.

themes: 
Beverages
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)