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tlalnemi.

Headword: 
tlalnemi.
Principal English Translation: 

sterile land upon which nothing will grow (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tierra esteril en la qual no se cria nada. çan tlalnemi.
This examaple comes from the Spanish to Nahuatl portion, f. 113r.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"...y las eriazas o tlalnemi"
Antonio García Cubas, Memoria para servir a la Carta General del Imperio Mexicano y demás naciones descubiertas y conquistadas por los españoles durante el siglo XVI en el territorio perteneciente hoy a la república mexicana (Mexico: Oficina Tipográfica de la Secretaría de Fomento, 1892), 5.

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