icniuhtia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

icniuhtia.

Principal English Translation:

to make friends with someone

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 219.

Alonso de Molina:

icniuhtia. nino. (pret. oninocniuhti.) tomar amistad con alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

icniuhtia. ninote. (pret. oninoteicniuhti.) hazerse amigo de otros, o ganar amigos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

icniuhtia. nite. (pret. oniteicniuhti.) dar aconocer a otros paraque se amen.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

moteicniuhtiani. el que procura amigos, o amistad con alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 060r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

(i)cnīuhtia, nicno. icniuh(tli), -tia2. 219

Attestations from sources in English:

quintlanenequiltiaia, quimōmocniuhtique = They kept offering them various things; they made friends with them. (Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 164.

themes:

Friendship, Affection