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tlacnopilhuia.

Headword: 
tlacnopilhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to receive grants or achieve what was desired or something beneficial (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlacnopilhuia. ni. (pret. onitlacnopilhui.) recebir mercedes, o alcanzar lo deseado, o cosa prouechosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 118r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See icnopilhuia, to deserve, acquire, obtain, get (something).

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)