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elehuiloni.

Headword: 
elehuiloni.
Principal English Translation: 

something desirable (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
eleuiloni
IPAspelling: 
eːleːwiːloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

eleuiloni. cosa desseable.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĒLĒHUĪLŌNI desirable person or thing / cosa deseabe (M), persona o cosa deseable (C) [(1)Cf.44v]. See ĒLĒHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 77.