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nenquenti.

Headword: 
nenquenti.
Principal English Translation: 

to improve (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēnquēnti
IPAspelling: 
neːnkeːnti
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNQUĒNTI to improve / mejora (Z) [(1)Zp.83,177]. The sense of this may be related to that of the phrase AHMŌ QUĒN CAH 'for nothing to be the matter with something.' See NĒNQUĒN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.