to change one's mind, to have a change of heart (nino); to make someone change his or her mind or opinion (nite); to turn against something, to resist, rebel
Translated from Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 194.
Also seen in the twentieth century in relation to turning into an animal. (See attestations in Spanish.)
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), 242.
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 243.
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), 242.
1. for insects and plants to be born. 2. for a cornstalk that had withered to sprout again. 3. for a person, animal or plant to be alive. 4. for a person or animal to recover from an illness.