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Tonal.

Headword: 
Tonal.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Donal
Attestations from sources in English: 

tonal = Tonal (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 126–127. See 146–147 and 156–157 for more examples.

Martín Tonal = a personal name, attested male, a Mexica, arrested in Mexico City for protesting rising tributes in July 1564
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 222–223.