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tlazotlapoloa.

Headword: 
tlazotlapoloa.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑsohtɬɑpoːloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlazotlapoloa. nite. (pret. onitetlazotlapolo.) yo pecador y malo amo a alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAZOHTLAPŌLOĀ vt to love someone out of the depths of one’s unworthiness / yo pecador y malo amo a alguno (M for first pers. sg. subject) See TLAZOHTLA, -PŌLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 306.