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nenti.

Headword: 
nenti.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to turn out to be in vain, to be frustrated (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēnti
IPAspelling: 
neːnti
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNTI for something to turn out to be in vain, to be frustrated / salir vana una cosa, frustrarse (C) [(2)Cf.58v,(1)Rp.47]. See NĒN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.