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nematca.

Headword: 
nematca.
Principal English Translation: 

prudently, carefully
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), 226.

IPAspelling: 
nemɑtkɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

nematca. mansamente, ocontiento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

pret. agentive as adverbial particle. adverbial pret. agentive form of reflexive ihmati. also the latter's pret. agentive combining form. 226