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Tlilquen.

Headword: 
Tlilquen.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca domingo tlilque = named Domingo Tlilquen (male; husband of Tecapan) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 140–141. See also 154–155.

po tlilquen (note the tlilli part of the glyph is indicated by the color black)(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), 126–127.