⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

nantia.

Headword: 
nantia.
Principal English Translation: 

to accept someone as a mother, or as a godmother, or to be brought up in a residence; to accept someone as a mother, or a godmother (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
nɑːntiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nantia. nino. (pret. oninonanti.) tomar a alguna por madre, o por madrina, o auezindarse.
nantia. nite. (pret. onitenanti.) dar aotro alguna por madre, o por madrina.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĀNTIĀ vrefl to take someone as one's mother or godmother, or to take up residence / tomar a alguna por madre o por madrina o avecindarse (M) [(1)Cf.58r]. See NĀN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent