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tlapatlaliztli.

Headword: 
tlapatlaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of trading some things for others, exchanging, switching, bartering (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑtɬɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapatlaliztli. el acto de trocar vnas cosas conotras, o de cambalachear.
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: 

TLAPATLALIZ-TLI change, exchange, barter / el acto de trocar unas cosas con otras o de cambalachear (M), cambio, vuelto (Z) [(2)Zp.24,213]. See PATLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 290.

themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy