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nentequiti.

Headword: 
nentequiti.
Principal English Translation: 

to labor in vain, to no end (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēntequiti
IPAspelling: 
neːntekiti
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNTEQUITI to labor in vain, to no end / trabaja en balde, en vano (T) [(3).167]. T forms the preterit of this by dropping the final vowel, but M forms the preterit of TEQUITI by adding -C. See NĒN, TEQUITI.

NĒNTEQUITILIĀ applic. NĒNTEQUITI.

NĒNTEQUITĪHUA nonact. NĒNTEQUITI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns