tlahuilanalli.

Headword:

tlahuilanalli.

Principal English Translation:

something dragged along -- often in possessed form, meaning the dependency of something, especially of an indigenous municipality

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.

Orthographic Variants:

tlahuillanalli

IPAspelling:

tɬɑwilɑːnɑlli

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

patientive noun from huilāna to drag. 236

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents tlahuilanalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

tlahuillanalli = a dependency (of a socio-political unit)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 68–69. (seventeenth c., central Mexico)

Sn xptobal Yuilanca Siudad Sn Jose tolocā = San Cristobál, a dependency of the city of San José Toluca (San Miguel Aticpac, Toluca Valley, 1732)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 80.

yntlahuillanalpan yntech pohui yn tlahtoq˜ = which belonged to and was a dependency of the rulers (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 68–69.