a plural ending added to nouns, when the noun has a consonant stem (see Lockhart)
Only animate beings (people and animals) were to be given the plural form in Classical Nahuatl. Typical plural endings are -tin and -meh (or, as Launey writes it, mê). Plurals can also be indicated through reduplication. Exceptions of inanimate plurals include mountains (tētepê) and stars (cīcitlāltin), which probably relate to their personification in religious belief. Also, -tin will follow a consonant, but the plural ending -meh (or, for linguists, -mê) will follow either a vowel or a consonant.
pipiltin = children (pilli = child)
imeixtin Juramento quicelique = the three of them took oath (Tlaxcala, 1547)
yn quenin oquitlalique otlanavatique cequintin Corregidoresme in imaltepepova ipan corregidorti = comó lo han dispuesto y ordenado otros corregidores en los pueblos en los cuales son corregidores (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Cuando los sustantivos tienen las disinencias tzintli, tontli, etc., hacen siempre el plural en tin: ciuatzintli, mujer noble, ciuatzitzintin; piltontli, niñito, pipiltotontin; etc.