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tenantli.

Headword: 
tenantli.
Principal English Translation: 

wall or rampart (see also tenamitl)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 233.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tenantli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

tepāntli, tenāntli = walls
Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 150.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Stones, Masonry
See also: 
tenamitl.
tepantli.