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necuiltonolli.

Headword: 
necuiltonolli.
Principal English Translation: 

riches, abundance, wealth (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
nekwiltoːnoːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

necuiltonolli. riqueza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 65v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NECUILTŌNŌL-LI wealth / riqueza (M), riqueza, prosperidad, y gozo (C) [(2)Cf.46v,114v]. See CUILTŌNOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 161.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh in quenman, qujtemacaia, in necujltonolli: in tlatqujtl, in oqujchiotl, in tiacauhiutl, in tecuitol, in tlatocaiutl, in pillotl, in mauizçotl. = And sometimes he bestowed riches—wealth, heroism, valor, position of dignity, rulership, nobility, honor. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 2.

necuiltonolli (noun) = riches, possessions
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 158.

in netlamachtilli in necuiltonolli = wealth and abundance.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 128–129.

themes: 
Money, Coins, Wealth