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tlatentli.

Headword: 
tlatentli.
Principal English Translation: 

a trimming from the edge of a garment or from maize, wheat, or beans; might this term also have served as "boundary" or edge of a piece of property or a territory? (see the attestation from Dehouve, below)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtentɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatentli. flocadura de vestidura, o mayz, trigo, frisoles, o cosa semejante echado y puesto en algun lugar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 135r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Tlatentli is translated as "lindero" in an eighteenth-century translation of a Nahuatl narrative about migration from Xochimilco and settlement in what is now the state of Guerrero. (Guerrero, 18th c.)
Danièle Dehouve, "Dos relatos sobre migraciones nahuas en el Estado de Guerrero," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 12 (1976), 141, 145.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Tlatentli se traduce "lindero" en la traducción de una narrativa sobre la migración de Xochimilco que resultó en la fundación de una comunidad en lo que hoy es Guerrero. (Guerrero, s. XVIII)
Danièle Dehouve, "Dos relatos sobre migraciones nahuas en el Estado de Guerrero," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 12 (1976), 141, 145.

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