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nenepɑnoːlistɬi

copulation, a carnal joining (see Molina); intercourse, sex

nenepɑntɬɑsohtɬɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
nenepilquappachoa
nenepilli

the tongue (see Karttunen and Molina)

s.o.’s tongue.
# un poco de la boca de la persona, animal domestico o animal silvestre con la que mueve su comida o se labea cuando se queda comida a la orilla de su boca. “el perro se labea con su lengua cuando se embarra lo que come”.
nenepilkiːsɑlistɬi
nenepilkiːski

a sprouted cob (see Molina)

nenepiltiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
nenepiltiā

for ears of corn to bud; to serve as a spokesman or translator (see Karttunen)

nehneki
Orthographic Variants: 
nehnequi

to want, desire, crave, or covet; to feign; to pretend to be something one is not, to try to pass for someone else; to be capricious (see Karttunen)

1. for a flower to be very difficult to care for. 2. for a child to be very spoiled.

constantly desirable

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 112.

neːnetetʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
nēnetech

close together (of more than two objects) (see Karttunen)

nenetɬ

a doll; a figurine of a deity; female genitals; in Nahuatl hieroglyphs, the nenetl often provided a phonetic role for the syllable or particle -nen- (which has a negative meaning of useless or fruitless) or -ne-, the indefinite reflexive pronoun [See: Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, entries for Nentequitl, Nenquizqui, Nenca, Nencauh, Zaocnen, etc.]