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tlatzetzeloliztli.

Headword: 
tlatzetzeloliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of shaking out clothing, or sifting something (see Molina and Karttunen, and related terms starting with tlatzetzel-)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsetselolistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzetzeloliztli. cernedura, o sacudimiento assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZETZELOLIZ-TLI shaking, sifting / cernidura o sacudimiento (M) [(2)Zp.112,216]. In one of two attestations the vowel of the fourth syllable is marked long. See TZETZELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 301.

See also: 
tlatzetzelhuia.
tlatzetzeloani.