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nepoːwɑlistɬi

pride, bragging

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), 227.

Orthographic Variants: 
Nepovalli, Nauhpohualli(?)

a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

the place where one is reckoned, read, or counted

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 159.

nepololistɬi

perdition or destruction of oneself (see Molina), suicide (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Nepopoalco, Nepopualco

a Huaxtepec province, an Ocuituco province, and an estancia (small satellite) of Citlaltepec [Berdan, et. al, Aztec Imperial Strategies (1996), 379]

nepohpoloːltiːlistɬi
nepotoːniːloːni
neketʃkimiloːloːni

a road towel or neck cloth (see Molina)

as high as a person can reach, used to name a particular measure of length

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), 227.

nekeʃililpiːloːni
nekeʃilpɑtʃoːloːni