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people humbling themselves

neknoːmɑtilistɬi

humility

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 251.

Orthographic Variants: 
necoc uicollo tecomatl

something square, squared off, the same on all sides (see Molina and attestations)

ambidextrous (?) (see Molina)

a two-faced man (see Molina)

a kind of fold (see Molina)

a two-faced man (see Molina)

a spade or something similar with two edges; also, a gossiper (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
necoc yacapatlauac tepuz teximaloni, necoc yacapatlahuac tepoz teximaloni

a stone cutter's hammer, for working stone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
necoc yaualtic

something squared; the same all around, on all sides (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
necoc iautl, Necoc iaotl

a deity's name, a name associated with Tezcatlipoca (see attestations); also, the name of a person from San Sebastián Matlahuacala, Tlaxcala, who tried to convince people not to accept baptism or Christian teachings ca. 1521; in lower case (necoc iautl), more generally, a traitor (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 38.

nekok

on both sides, square; from both sides; at both ends, two ways, both ways; from one side to the other (see Molina and attestations)