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tlanehui.

Headword: 
tlanehui.
Principal English Translation: 

to borrow something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanēhui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑneːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĒHU(I) vt to borrow something / pide alquilado, lo pide prestado (Z) [(3)Zp.9,95, (3)Xp.75]. See TLANĒHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 284.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhua yc omotlancuh tilmatli ynpanpa yc otlachichihua loc mexico yhua tmitac Regitorti yn mochi matlactli peSo, 10 pos = Y se aquiló unas tilmas para que los regidores se las vistan cuando van a México. Todo por diez pesos. (San Andrés Chiautla, 1638)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 176–177