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imatcanemi.

Headword: 
imatcanemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to live cautiously and with warning (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ihmɑtkɑːnemi
Alonso de Molina: 

imatcanemi. nin. (pret. oninimatcanen.) biuir recatadamente y sobre auiso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 38r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

IHMATCĀNEM(I) vrefl; pret: -NEN to live circumspectly / vivir recatadamente y sobre aviso (M), vive con cordura (C) [(1)Cf.99r]. See IHMAT(I), NEM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 99.