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cihuatlani.

Headword: 
cihuatlani.
Principal English Translation: 

to seek or gain a woman for marriage (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
cihuahtlani
IPAspelling: 
siwɑhtɬɑni
Attestations from sources in English: 

cihuahtlanqui, cihuahtlani = who sought, who gained, a woman for his son;
mā timitzcihuahtlanicān = let us find thee a woman
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 127. See also Book 10, chapter 7.

Nican moteneoa, injc cioatlanja in nican tlaca = Here is related how the natives sought wives (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 127.