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nenɑkɑsʃɑpotɬɑlistɬi

piercing the ear [lobes]

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 80.

nenɑkɑsjektiːloːni

to dig into or scratch the ears (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nenaoac

side by side

nenɑːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
nenaualiztli

a dance involving men who have their arms around each other's necks (see Molina); this puts them very close together (see nenahuac) (SW)

married life (see Molina)

a life in matrimony, married life (see Molina)

the love a couple who will marry (see Molina)

something relating to matrimony (see Molina)

a godmother (see Molina)

the godfather upon marriage (see Molina)

nenɑːmiktilistɬi

marriage

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.

nenɑːmiktiːloːni
nenɑːmiktiːloːjɑːn
nenɑːmiktiːloːyoh
Orthographic Variants: 
nenāmictīlōyoh

marriage (see Karttunen)

nenɑjoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
nennayotl, nen nayotl

a means or way of living (see Molina)

neːnkɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
nēncah

1) to be idle, without profit; in vain, futile (see Karttunen); 2) to have lived (see attestations in English)

Orthographic Variants: 
nencaua yn cemilhuitl

to waste the entire day away, doing nothing productive (see Molina)

neːnkɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nencaua

to fail to do something out of negligence; or, to let some bad deed go unpunished; or, in the reflexive, to be mocked, to be miserable (see Molina); or, to find oneself made fun of (Olmos 1547, 249v)

neːnkɑːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
nēncāhui

to be in vain (see Karttunen)