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tempatilia.

Headword: 
tempatilia.
IPAspelling: 
teːmpɑtiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tempatilia. nino. (pret. oninotempatili.) trastrocar las palabras, o trastrauillarseme la lengua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 98r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMPATILIĀ vrefl to mix up one's words, to stammer / trastrocar las palabras o trastrabillarseme la lengua (M) [(1)Cf.114r]. See TĒN-TLI, PATILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 223.