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tenmati.

Headword: 
tenmati.
Principal English Translation: 

to wail or complain to someone (with te-); or, with indefinite tla-, to recount one's sufferings

John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos (1985), 304, 306, 349.

Orthographic Variants: 
temmati
Attestations from sources in English: 

tenmati = to be idle, negligent, unfortunate
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 163.