to surpass someone in speaking or eating (See Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tēntlāni
IPAspelling:
teːntɬɑːni
Frances Karttunen:
TĒNTLĀN(I) vt to surpass someone in speaking or eating / le gana hablando (o comiendo) (Z) [(2)Zp.62,197]. See TĒN-TLI, TLĀN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 226.