a melting pot for melting down gold (see Molina); a flute (Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
tɬɑpiːtsɑloːni
Alonso de Molina:
tlapitzaloni. crisol para fundir oro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TLAPĪTZALŌNI flute; crucible / flauta (Z), crisol para fundir oro (M) [(2)Zp.60,213]. The literal sense these share is of something worked by blowing into it. See PĪTZ(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.