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tlanitoa.

Headword: 
tlanitoa.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnihtoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlanitoa. nino vel. nitla. (pret. oninotlanito.) perder algo enel juego.
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: 

TLANIHTOĀ vrefl, vt to lose something at gambling / perder algo en el juego (M) This is implied by TLANIHTALHUIĀ. In light of TLĀN(I) ‘to defeat someone at gambling,’ one would expect a long vowel in the first syllable. TLANIHTOĀ and TLANIHTALHUIĀ are based on a single attestation (Cf.118v) in which the vowel of the first syllable is not marked for length. C may have omitted a diacritic.

TLANIHTALHUIĀ applic. TLANIHTOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 286.