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tehuantin.

Headword: 
tehuantin.
Principal English Translation: 

we, independent pronoun

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), 233.

Orthographic Variants: 
tehuan
IPAspelling: 
tehwɑːntin
Alonso de Molina: 

tehuantin. nosotros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 94r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

shortened form tehhuān. 233

Attestations from sources in English: 

(in) tèhuāntin, (ca) titlācâ = (As for us), we're people.
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 37.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

in teuantin alcaldes don Pedro de la Cruz Martin Cano por su magestad = nosotros don Pedro de la Cruz y Martin Can alcaldes por su magestad (Ciudad de México, 1558)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 98.

Dehuandin = Nosotros (Guatemala, 1637, documento en pipil)
Miguel León-Portilla, "Un Texto en Nahua Pipil de Guatemala, Siglo XVII," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 35–47, y ver 44–45.