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icnelilmati.

Headword: 
icnelilmati.
Principal English Translation: 

to be thanked; to thank someone for something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ikneːliːlmɑti
Alonso de Molina: 

icnelilmati. nino. (pret. oninocnelilmat.) ser agradecido.
icnelilmati. nite. (pret. oniteicnelilma.) agradecer algo a otro.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

(I)CNĒLĪLMAT(I) vrefl,vt to be grateful; to thank someone / ser agradecido (M), agradecer algo a otro (M) [(1)Cf.62r]. By regular derivational process, the third syllable should be long, but it is unmarked for length in C. See (I) CNĒLIĀ, MAT(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 94.