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tzilinia.

Headword: 
tzilinia.
Principal English Translation: 

to ring a bell or bells

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

IPAspelling: 
tsiliːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tzilinia. nitla. (pret. onitlatzilini.) tañer campana, o otra cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZILĪNIĀ vt to ring a bell / tañer campana o otra cosa semejante (M) See TZILĪN(I). TZILĪNILIĀ applic. TZILĪNIĀ. TZILĪNĪLŌ nonact. TZILĪNIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 312.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 3: ōnictzilīn. based on tzilīni.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.