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netlacuilli.

Headword: 
netlacuilli.
Principal English Translation: 

debt

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

IPAspelling: 
netɬɑkwilli
Alonso de Molina: 

netlacuilli. cosa que se tomo prestada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 70r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tonetlacuil = our debts (Coyoacan, late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth century)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 15, 98–99.