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tlacoyonilli.

Headword: 
tlacoyonilli.
Principal English Translation: 

something bored through or pierced (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkoyoːniːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacoyonilli. cosa agujerada o horadada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 118v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACOYŌNĪL-LI something perforated, full of holes / cosa agujereada u horadada (M) [(2)Zp.7,204]. See COYŌNIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 256.