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neneloa.

Headword: 
neneloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to stir something, to disorder things, to make a mess (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
nehneloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

neneloa. nitla. (pret. onitlanenelo.) mezclar, o reboluer vnas cosas con otras, o desordenar lo bien ordenado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 68r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NEHNELOÁ vt to stir something, to disorder things, to make a mess / mezclar o revolver unas cosas con otras o desordenar lo bien ordenado (M) [(1)Rp.111]. See NELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 162.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

neneloa (verb) = to mix, to mingle
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 159.