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nempehualtia.

Headword: 
nempehualtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to mistreat someone for no good reason (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nempeualtia
IPAspelling: 
neːmpeːwɑltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nempeualtia. nite. (pret. onitenempeualti.) maltratar a otro sin causa.
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: 

NĒMPĒHUALTIĀ vt to mistreat someone for no good reason / maltratar a otro sin causa (M) [(1)Cf.77r,(3)Tp.193]. See NĒN, PĒHUALTIĀ, NĒMPĒHU(I).

NEMPEHUALTILIĀ applic. NĒMPĒHUALTIĀ.

NĒMPĒHUALTĪLŌ nonact. NĒMPĒHUALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 166.