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tlamimilolli.

Headword: 
tlamimilolli.
Principal English Translation: 

something turned over or tipped up; or, some hillock or small slope (see Molina); mound (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamimiloli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmimiloːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamimilolli. cosa trastornada assi, algun altozano o cuesta pequeña, orebenton.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 126v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn tlamimiloli ohuetzi ytech yn tepetetotli coyotianguiztli = the ridge until reaching the little hill called Coyotianguiztli [translated by Rosado as "mercado de las zorras"] (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 91.

atlauhtli, in tlamimilolli = the metaphor for ravine; literally, "the ravine, the cliff," the bottom and sides that form a ravine
T. D. Sullivan, "The Finding and Founding of Mexico," Revistas Filológicas (1971).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlamimilolli = montículo
Proyecto Técnico de Turismo Comunitario: San Pedro Huamelula (Tecnológico Nacional de México, 2022). https://www.tecnm.mx/archivos/agendas/turismo_comunitario/TURISMO_COM_SA...

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