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tenehualoni.

Headword: 
tenehualoni.
Principal English Translation: 

something stated, mentioned, uttered; something worthy of praise

Orthographic Variants: 
teneualoni
Alonso de Molina: 

teneualoni. cosa digna de loor.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 99r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in manel ye huel temahmauti, yn ahmo tenehualoni = even though really frightening and unmentionable
Andrés Sáenz de la Peña, Manual de los Santo Sacramentos, 1643, f. 34r.; translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix E, 12.