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tetlamachtiani.

Headword: 
tetlamachtiani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who enriches, or glorifies; also a preacher (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tetlamachtiani. enriquecedor, o glorificador.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The first half of Molina's Vocabulario (on folio 35 verso) also gives this translation, "dador delos bienes espirituales y temporales" (giver of spiritual and temporal benefits).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tetlamachtiani = glorificador, derivado de tlamachtia, p. otlamachti, glorificar, hace notetlamachticauh, mi glorificador
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xliii.