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.