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zanilli.

Headword: 
zanilli.
Principal English Translation: 

tale, fable; conversation (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zānīlli
IPAspelling: 
sɑːniːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

ZĀNĪL-LI pl: -TIN tale, fable; conversation / consejuelas para hacer reír (M for reduplicated form), cuento, plática, conversación (Z) [(6)Zp.33,36,99,201]. This is commonly found in reduplicated form but there are no attestations of it in the sources for this dictionary which would show whether the reduplication is of the short-vowel, long-vowel, or vowel-glottal stop type. See ZĀNĪLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition