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Alonso de Molina: 

tena. ni. (pret. onitenac.) quexarse el enfermo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 98r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TENA to complain of discomfort / quejarse el enfermo (M), se queja (de dolor) (T) [(3)Tp.225, (2)Zp.104,220, (3)Xp.85].

TENALŌ nonact. TENA.

TENALTIĀ caus. TENA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 224.

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