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nantenehua.

Headword: 
nantenehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to curse, swear; to curse someone by insulting his mother (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāntēnēhua
IPAspelling: 
nɑːnteːneːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀNTĒNĒHU(A) vrefl,vt to curse, swear; to curse someone by insulting his mother / mienta la autora de sus días, mienta la madre (T), le mienta la madre (T) [(6)Tp. 154,194]. See NĀN-TLI, TĒNĒHU(A).

NĀNTĒNĒHUILIĀ applic. NĀNTĒNĒHU(A).

NĀNTĒNĒHUALŌ nonact. NĀNTĒNĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 159.