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nɑːnkiliɑː

to answer, affirm, or respond to someone; to help in Mass, reciting responses in a ceremony (see Molina and Karttunen)

to answer s.o.
A. Persona le regresa la palabra de lo que le pregunta una cosa. “Horacio le pregunta a rosario ya terminaste de estudiar y Rosario contesta si.” B. Responder.
nɑːnteːneːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nāntēnēhua

to curse, swear; to curse someone by insulting his mother (see Karttunen)

nɑːntiɑː

to accept someone as a mother, or as a godmother, or to be brought up in a residence; to accept someone as a mother, or a godmother (see Molina)

nɑːntɬi

mother; this is the form with the absolutive ending, but it was usually possessed (see Molina and Karttunen); also seen in reference to afterbirth (see Sahagún, 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), chapter 30, 169.

root of NĀNĀNTLI, TĒNĀNTZIN and other words. mother.

to be lying down or stretched out (see Molina)

a small mother (in statue) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nantzinxocotl, nanche

a type of fruit used in medicinal remedies
James A. Duke, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America, 2008, 137.

nɑːnyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
naiotl, naniotl

maternity (see Lockhart); motherhood, the responsibilities of motherhood (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
naollin, Nahui Ollin

Four Movement, a day sign of the calendar; also spelled out more fully, Nahui Olin

nɑːpɑlwiɑ

to take something in one's hands, or in one's arms for another person (see Molina)

nɑːpɑloɑː

to embrace; to adopt; take, carry in one's arms (see Molina)

80 (4 twenties)

Orthographic Variants: 
nappa naui

four times four

nɑːppɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
napa

four times

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 226.

nɑːppɑntɬi

four rows

Orthographic Variants: 
nappoalcan

in eighty parts or places

Orthographic Variants: 
nappoalipilli

one thousand six hundred pieces of paper, cloths, mats, or similar things that are flat and thin (see Molina)