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zanipan.

Headword: 
zanipan.
Principal English Translation: 

something moderate; moderately (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zānīpan
IPAspelling: 
sɑːniːpɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

ZĀNĪPAN something moderate; moderately / cosa manual o mediana, o algún tanto, o en alguna manera (M), medianamente, de buena manera (C) [(8)Cf.122r,123r,131v]. Of eight attestations C marks the vowel of the first syllable long five times and leaves three unmarked. Apparently this is not a compound of ZAN and ĪPAN. It is often found in the phrases ZĀNĪPAN CUAL-LI and ZĀNĪPAN YĒC-TLI, both of which appear in M with the same sense of ZĀNĪPAN alone.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

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