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tlamana.

Headword: 
tlamana.
Principal English Translation: 

to make an offering or a gift (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamana. ni. (pret. onitlaman.) ofrecer algun don o ofrenda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn iiacac vitz xochitl ic tlamanalo, aiac achto qujnecuj, intlacamo achto ic tlamanaz = It was the first flowers to appear which were thus given as offerings. None might breathe the scent without first providing an offering. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 55.

themes: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Religion (Christian)