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tlanahualnochilia.

Headword: 
tlanahualnochilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to procure, to pimp (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanaualnochilia
Alonso de Molina: 

tlanaualnochilia. nite. (pret. onitetlanaualnochili.) alcahuetear.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 127r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Cuix quenmanian aca otictlanahualnochili? = Did you sometime pimp for somebody?
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 111.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Cuix quenmanian aca otictlanahualnochili? = As sido tercero, ò alcaguete de alguno, ó alguna
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 110–111.