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Nemitl.

Headword: 
Nemitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male); this possibly involves the verb nemi (to live, or to go about) made into a noun by adding an absolutive suffix (-tl)

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Nemitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

ytoca nemitl = named Nemitl (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 146–147.

See also: 
nemini.