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tlaneuhtli.

Headword: 
tlaneuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

something borrowed (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanēuhtli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑneːwtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaneuhtli. emprestado, o cosa prestada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 128v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĒUH-TLI something borrowed / emprestado o cosa prestada (M) [(2)Zp.101,211]. See TLANĒHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 285.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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