tlapalhuia.

Headword: 
tlapalhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to greet another person; or, to put colors into what one is painting (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhpɑlwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapalhuia. ninote. (pret. oninotetlapalhui.) saludar o otro.
tlapalhuia. nitla. (pret. onitlapalhui.) poner colores en lo que se pinta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlapalhuia (verb, relative) = to be brilliant or happy; act., to salute a person; to paint something
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 165.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yn o[n]yaque co[n]motlapalhuique in p[adr]e = y al llegar saludaron al padre (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 140–141.

themes: 
Art, Crafts
Colors
Emotions
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition