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tlamamaloni.

Headword: 
tlamamaloni.
Principal English Translation: 

gear for carrying things (see Karttunen); the governed (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamāmalōni, tlamamalonj
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑːmɑloːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMĀMALŌNI gear for carrying things / instrumento para cargar (K) [(2)Bf.7r]. B specifically marks the vowel of the third syllable short in both attestations. This is paired in context with CĀCĀX-TLI, ‘pack frame.’ See MĀMĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 280.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tehoatl itlan tonaquj in vei qujmilli, in vei cacaxtli, in tlatconj, in tlamamalonj = Thou art to devote thyself to the great bundle, the great carrying frame, the governed (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 48.

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