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teicneliliztli.

Headword: 
teicneliliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a good deed done to another person; or, compassion, mercy, aid (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teːikneːlilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

teicneliliztli. beneficio hecho a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 94r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒICNĒLILIZ-TLI compassion, mercy, aid / beneficio hecho a otro (M) [(1)Cf.59v,(6)Zp.31,33,75,85,219]. See (I)CNĒLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.

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