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petlani.

Headword: 
petlani.
Principal English Translation: 

to scatter, to glisten, to reflect (reflexive verb) (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
petɬɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

petlani. (pret. opetlan.) derramarse alguna cosa liquida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PETLĀN(I) for something to scatter, glisten, reflect / derramarse alguna cosa líquida (M), derramarse algo y relumbrar (C), brilla, reluce, relumbra (T).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 192.