attending to someone who needs tending for a long time (?) (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
nemelaualiztli
Alonso de Molina:
nemelaualiztli. tendimiento del que se tiende ala larga. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.