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neixnamiquiliztli.

Headword: 
neixnamiquiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

dispute, argument, fight, debate, controversy

Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana redactado según los documentos impresos y manuscritos más auténticos y precedido de una introducción (Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1996, {1885}), 318.

Orthographic Variants: 
neixnamiquiztli
IPAspelling: 
neiːʃnɑːmikilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

neixnamiquiliztli. contienda, obaraja delos que riñen.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 66r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

huel miec neyxnamiquilistli omochiuh cabildo = a great deal of arguing tiij okace ub tge cabildoHere in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 118–119.