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nenecuilli.

Headword: 
nenecuilli.
Principal English Translation: 

something displaced, dislocated, twisted (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nehnecuilli
IPAspelling: 
nehnekwilli
Frances Karttunen: 

NEHNECUIL-LI something displaced, dislocated, twisted / desplazado, torcido (K) [(2)Tp.137]. This is only attested in ĪXTENEHNECUIL-LI 'someone cross-eyed.' It implies NEHNECUILOĀ. See NECUILOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 162.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents nenecuilli in an entry for the compound glyph Anenecuilco in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).