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tlayahuani.

Headword: 
tlayahuani.
Principal English Translation: 

a dancer(?) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaiauani, tlaiahuani
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaiauani. turificador, o encienzador.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 121r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlayauani ni-huitz = I come dancing, as a dancer
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Rig Veda americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans (1890), 84.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance