Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tetlapalolli.

Headword: 
tetlapalolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a greeting, greetings (see also tetlapaloliztli)

Attestations from sources in English: 

aҫo matlaqujlhvitl, anoҫo cempoalilvitl in nemj tetlapalolli = perhaps the greetings lasted ten days or twenty days (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 196.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition