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immanti.

Headword: 
immanti.
Principal English Translation: 

to be the time, or opportune time to do something, or to have complete a day and time that one was waiting on (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
immɑnti
Alonso de Molina: 

immanti. (pret. oimmantic.) ser ya hora o tiempo oportuno. s. para hazer algo, o venir y cumplirse el tiempo y hora. s. quese esperaua.
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: 

IMMANTI for the right moment to be at hand / ser ya hora y tiempo oportuno para hacer algo, o venir y cumplirse el tiempo y hora que se esperaba (M) [(3)Cf.59r, (I)Rp.47]. See IMMAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 105.

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Time, Calendar, Frequency