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nemaquixtiliztli.

Headword: 
nemaquixtiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

rescue

IPAspelling: 
nemɑːkiːʃtilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

nemaquixtiliztli. saluacion, o libramiento del que se escapa y libra de algun mal. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NEMĀQUĪXTILIZ-TLI redemption, salvation / rescate, salvación (T) [(1)Tp.167|. See MĀQUĪXTIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 165.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ypã moteneua yn huei ymahuiztica tonemaquixtiliz = in it are told the great wonders of our rescue (mid sixteenth century, Central Mexico) Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 124.