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necoctene atlihuani.

Headword: 
necoctene atlihuani.
Principal English Translation: 

a container for water (see Molina and Siméon)

Orthographic Variants: 
necoctene atliuani
Alonso de Molina: 

necoctene atliuani. escarnidor, o hurta agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 65r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

atliuani = vaso para beber, de atli, beber
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.

themes: 
Water