to try to make a living (nino); to serve someone (nic)
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), 239.
scientist, physicist (in contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl) Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around Them, ed. Kelly S. McDonough (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024), vii.