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tlayocoyani.

Headword: 
tlayocoyani.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑyoːkoyɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayocoyani. inuentador tal, o inuentor e industrioso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 122r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAYŌCOYANI inventor, creator / inventador... o inventor e industrioso (M) [(2)Bf.5v,9r]. See YŌCOY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 305.