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tenantia.

Headword: 
tenantia.
IPAspelling: 
tenɑːntiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tenantia. nitla. (pret. onitlatenanti.) cercar de muro la ciudad o hazer albarrada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 98r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TENĀNTIĀ vt to wall something in, to encircle something with a wall or trench / cercar de mura la ciudad o hacer albarrada (M) [(1)Cf.58r]. See TENĀM(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 224.