this is the initial element of a number of verbs having to do with crossing, travelling through, and being at a distance. (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nāl
IPAspelling:
nɑːl
Frances Karttunen:
NĀL- This is the initial element of a number of verbs having to do with crossing, travelling through, and being at a distance. See -NĀL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 158.