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tentia.

Headword: 
tentia.
IPAspelling: 
teːntiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tentia. nino. (pret. oninotenti.) hablar alguno, o entremeterse donde no le llaman, o en negocio ageno.
tentia. nitla. (pret. onitlatenti.) amolar o afilar cuchillo o cosa semejante, o echar ribete o flocadura o franja alavestidura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 99v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNTIĀ vrefl, vt to interfere; to sharpen

TĒNTILIĀ applic. TĒNTIĀ.

TĒNTĪLŌ nonact. TĒNTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225. something, to give something an edge, to tune an instrument / hablar alguno o entremeterse donde no llaman, o en negocio ajeno (M), amolar o afilar cuchillo o cosa semejante, o echar ribete o floradura o franja a la vestidura (M), lo afila, lo afina (guitarra, violín) (T) With the oblique reflexive in addition to a direct object prefix, this means 'to make someone serve as a voice for someone else.' See TĒN-TLI.