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tlani.

Headword: 
tlani.
Principal English Translation: 

below, underneath (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlani. abaxo, o debaxo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 129r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLANI below, underneath / abajo o debajo (M)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 285.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn nican tlani mitoc testigos = aqui abajo se dice testigos (Tlaxcala, 1568)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 113.