nemitia.

Headword: 
nemitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to be supported by, work for; to provide for

IPAspelling: 
nemiːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nemitia. nite. (pret. onitenemiti.) mantener o sustentar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

nemitia ytla nitic nic. itla nitic onicnemiti. pensar o tratar algo dentro de si.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

nemitia. nino. (pret. oninonemiti.) biuir o morar en algun lugar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

nemitia. nic. (pret. onicnemiti.) tener o sustentar criado o cauallo. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NEMĪTIĀ vt to maintain, nurture someone or something / mantener o sustentar a otro (M), tener o sustentar criado o caballo (M) altern. caus. NEM(I). NEMĪTILIĀ applic. NEMĪTIĀ. NEMĪTĪLŌ nonact. NEMĪTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 166.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. to cause to live, to keep or maintain a person or animal. Class 3: ōnicnemītih. causative of nemi. 226
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 226.

Attestations from sources in English: 

motolinitinẽca = lived in misery (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 171.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns