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tlanequiliztli.

Headword: 
tlanequiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

will, wish

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), 237.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanequilli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnekilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlanequiliztli. voluntad, o el acto de querer algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 128v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLANEQUILIZ-TLI will, desire / voluntad o el acto de querer algo (M) [(2)Tp.134]. See NEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 285.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nequi, -liztli. 237

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

notlanequiliz = mi últim[a] volunptad (Toluca, 1621)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 132–133.

totecuiyo Jesuxrispo ynic nechmotlaocolliliz nechmouiquilli ytlatocachantzinco yluicatl itec yc tlanequilli = [Nuestro Señor Jesucristo allá en el cielo y la gloria], me quiera perdonar y llevarme a su santo reino (Tizatlan, Tlaxcala, 1599)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 314–315.