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nananquilia.

Headword: 
nananquilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to respond with impatience when one is corrected (see Molina); to respond to someone's criticism with impatience; to oppose someone (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
nɑːnɑːnkiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nananquilia. nite. (pret. onitenananquili.) responder con impaciencia el que es reprehendido o corregido.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĀNĀNQUILIĀ vt to respond to someone's criticism with impatience; to oppose someone / responder con impaciencia el que es reprehendido o corregido (M), le opone, le hace oposición (T) redup. NĀNQUILIĀ.

NĀNĀNQUILILIĀ applic. NĀNĀNQUILIĀ

NĀNĀNQUILĪLŌ nonact. NĀNĀNQUILIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 159.

Attestations from sources in English: 

nananquilia (verb) = to answer, to reply to
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 158.