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yecneci.

Headword: 
yecneci.
Principal English Translation: 

to be, appear well (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēcnēci
IPAspelling: 
yeːkneːsi
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCNĒC(I) pret: -NĒZ to be, appear well / parece bien, se ve bien (T) [(1)Tp.248]. See YĒC-TLI, NĒC(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 336.

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