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tlacuepaliztli.

Headword: 
tlacuepaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

something that is upside down, or the act of turning something from top to bottom (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwepɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacuepaliztli. apelacion assi. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Tlacuepaliztli is attested in a seventeenth-century music manuscript in Nahuatl from Guatemala, translated as "la transformación." It is paired with tlaycuaniliztl (also seen in the plural as: tlaychuanilizti and tlaycuanilizme). The authors translate this as "una alternancia."
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 92–93.