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tlapalehuiani.

Headword: 
tlapalehuiani.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlapaleuiani
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑleːwiɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapaleuiani. el que da fauor y ayuda.
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: 

TLAPALĒHUIĀNI someone helpful / el que da favor y ayuda (M) [(1)Tp.234]. See PALĒHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 289.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality