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.