N | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter N: Displaying 1281 - 1300 of 2379

nēnequi.

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

(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.

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nenetech.

neːnetetʃ

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nēnetech

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

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nenetl.

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. But the images are mostly of small sculptures of feminine figures in a frontal view.
Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs; see entries for Nentequitl, Nenquizqui, Nenca, Nencauh, Zaocnen, etc.

ineneuh = her vulva
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 70r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/70r?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 23 June 2025.

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nenetolitlacoliztli.

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nenetolpololiztli.

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nenetoltiliztli.

nenehtoːltilistɬi

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nenetotilizmachtiloyan.

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nenetz.

neneːts

Orthographic Variants:

nenētz

twin (see Karttunen)

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nenetzo.

two pieces of fruit stuck together.

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nenētztic.

1. two pieces of fruit that have grown fused. 2. siamese twins; person or animal with doubled or fused body parts.

# 1. un tipo de fruta esta pegado con otra. “el plátano lo que esta pegado no puedes comer porque también vas a tener tus hijos pegados”. 2. un pedazo del cuerpo de la persona, animal domestico o animal silvestre lo que esta pegado con otro. “la cabeza de ese guajolote esta pegado porque tiene otro pedazo de su carne”. 3. persona, animal domestico y animal silvestre la que nace pegado con otro. “ese puerco viene pegado con otro”.

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