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tetlaliani.

Headword: 
tetlaliani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who detains another so that he or she will not leave; or one who greets another person (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tetlaliani. el que detiene a otro paraque nose vaya, o el que saluda a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 108v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.