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tlapalanaltia.

Headword: 
tlapalanaltia.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑlɑːnɑltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapalanaltia. el que tiene podrido el miembro genital.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPALĀNALTIĀ to cause things to rot, to suffer from venereal disease / el que tiene podrido el miembro genital (M), lo pudre (Z) [(2)Zp.100,212]. See PALĀNALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.