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techinamitl.

Headword: 
techinamitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a fence or city wall (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

techinamitl. cerca, o muro de ciudad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Was this made of stone? Might it also have been made of reeds? See the Florentine Codex, Book 6, Chapter 35.

aço can techinantitlan texomolco timopopolivitiz = Perhaps somewhere in another's reed enclosure, in another's corner thou wilt perish (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), 194.

See also: 
tenamitl.
chinamitl.