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nextilia.

Headword: 
nextilia.
IPAspelling: 
neːʃtiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nextilia. nic. (pret. onicnextili.) descubrir secreto al amigo.
nextilia. nicte. (pret. onictenextili.) reuelar o descubrir algo a otro.
nextilia. ninote. (pret. oninotenextili.) aparecer o manifestarse a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 71v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĒXTILIĀ vrefl,vt to reveal oneself to others; to reveal, teach something to someone, to tell something to someone in confidence / aparecer o manifestarse a otros (M), revelar o descubrir algo a otro (M), descubrir secreto al amigo (M) applic. NĒXTIĀ.

NĒXTILILIĀ applic. NĒXTILIĀ.

NĒXTILĪLŌ nonact. NĒXTILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.

Attestations from sources in English: 

to discover a friend's secret; to reveal or show something to someone; or, to appear and manifest oneself to others (see Molina)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

CALIXTLI
Ninopolhuili iohtli nonemiliz
Queman teotlalli teotlac oniacico
Ihuan niconic ilhuicatl ichoquiliz.
Ilhuicac tlanextli in tlachcuitl manilico
Yepiolocozcameca ica tlazohtli,
Ce tzoncuitl nechnextili yancuic ohtli
Ihuan notonal tlahuiltenamiquico.

PORTICO
Equivoqué el sendero de mi vida
Cuando, en la tarde pude llegar al valle,
Y me bebí las lágrimas del cielo.
Tan pronto como el alba
Vino a ofrendar al césped
Sus sarteles de perlas con cariño,
Un jilguero me mostró nuevo camino
La luz, entonces vino a besar mi alma.
Pedro Barra Valenzuela [de Chicontepec, Veracruz], 1939
Javier Galicia Silva, Facebook, 20 Junio 2020.