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nanamiqui.

Headword: 
nanamiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

help or favor; to help oneself or favor oneself; or to help someone or be an advisor (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

nanamiqui. nitla. (pret. onitlananamic.) ayudar o favorecer.
nanamiqui. nino. (pret. oninonanamic.) ayudarse o favorecerse.
nanamiqui. nite. (pret. onitenanamic.) ayudar a otro, o ser asessor.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

atle y quinanamiqui ça quixcavia = the only thing he does is guarding things (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 132–133.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality