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tenyo.

Headword: 
tenyo.
Principal English Translation: 

someone of fame and honor, a person of repute (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teːnyoh
Alonso de Molina: 

tenyo. persona afamada, o encumbrada en honrra.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNYOH someone of fame, a person of repute / persona afamada o encumbrada en honra (M) [(1)Cf.54v, (3)Rp.44,45,133]. See TĒNYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 226.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tēnyô = famous (colonial Mexico)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 9.