to barter, exchange, or do business; or, to change clothes; or to correct a defect (see Molina and Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
tɬɑpɑtiliɑː
Alonso de Molina:
tlapatilia. nino. (pret. oninotlapatili.) feriar, trocar o contratar, o emmendar y corregir su daño, o defecto.
tlapatilia. nite. (pret. onitetlapatili.) emmendar o reformar algo a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TLAPATILIĀ vrefl to barter, exchange, or do business, to change clothes / feriar, trocar, o contratar (M), se muda de vestido (Z) [(2)Zp.86,173]. See PATLA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 290.