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tlilania.

Headword: 
tlilania.
Principal English Translation: 

to draw or make lines with ink, or to outline something in black

IPAspelling: 
tɬiːlɑniɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlilania. nitla. (pret. onitlatlilani.) debuxar o hazer rayas con tinta, o echar perfil denegro alo que se pinta con pinzel.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"Inin quaderno amoxtli itech neztoc tlilancoc inin ixiuatlapualtzi in totecuiyo Dios inic ó mochiuhchtaya initech in cahuitl in huehetixtlamaque ipan inin Nueva España. In quenami neztoc inipan original zanyuhqui inic oniquiixcopin nehuatl Marcel de Zalazar, etc." = "In this book appears written this year count of our Lord God how it is shown what happened in the time of the old wise ones here in New Spain. As it appeared in the original, thus I, Marcelo de Salazar, etc., copied it." (Bartolache Annals, 1454–1737)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, pp. 103–104, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

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Writing, Literacy