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huel in noma.

Headword: 
huel in noma.
Principal English Translation: 

really my hand (see Molina); speaking of writing, really in my own handwriting (i.e. I wrote it); speaking of money, perhaps: really from my own hand (i.e. I lent it)?

Orthographic Variants: 
uelynoma
Alonso de Molina: 

uelynoma. el mismo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Noyhuan niquitoa noteicauh Juan de Quesada onic tlanechti macuilli pesos tomín, huel ynoma oquiceli quixtlahuas ytechpohuis ynopilhuan. = Item digo y declaro que al dicho mi hermano Juan de Quesada le presté cinco pesos en reales. Él mismo los pidió prestados los dichos cinco pesos, se los han de dar a mis hijos. (Mexico City, 1576)
Miguel León-Portilla and Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, "El testamento de Alonso Begerano en náhuatl," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 48,

themes: 
Writing, Literacy