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tetlauhtilli.

Headword: 
tetlauhtilli.
Principal English Translation: 

endowment, gift, or mercy shown another person (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tetlauhtilli. el don, o merced que se haze a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 110r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ynamo yhuanphui yn solar omoteneuh notetlauhtil = El solar no se incluye en el regalo arriba dicho. (Tetzcoco, 1610)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 158–159.

themes: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Religion (Christian)