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tehuatl.

Headword: 
tehuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

you, 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.

IPAspelling: 
tehwɑːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tehuatl. tu.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEHHUĀ-TL second person singular pronoun, long form you (singular) / tu (C) When this appears without the absolutive suffix, the Ā is subject to the general rule of word-final shortening. The sequence TEH, TEHHUĀ, TEHHUĀ-TL represents increasingly emphatic 'you (singular).' See TEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 218.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

shortened forms tehhua, teh. reverential tehhuātzin. 233

Attestations from sources in English: 

Cuix tèhuātl? -- Quēmâ, ca nèhuatl. = Is it you (singular)? Yes, it's me. (Or, yes, it is I.)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 35.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ta:ja = tehuatl
¿Ke:n tine:mi? Yek...¿ua:n usted? = ¿Co:mo esta:s? Bien....¿y usted? (Sonsonate, El Salvador, Nahuat or Pipil, s. XX)
Tirso Canales, Nahuat (San Salvador: Universidad de El Salvador, Editorial Universitaria, 1996), 21–22.