a table in the church for receiving offerings (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish)
Alonso de Molina:
tlamanal mesa. mesa que se pone enla yglesia paraque ofrezcan enella. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.