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ilnamiquilia.

Headword: 
ilnamiquilia.
Principal English Translation: 

for memory to return or sharpen; to remember or to reflect on something (see Karttunen); I remember something that someone else committed or did (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ilnɑːmikiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ilnamiquilia. nicte. (pret. onicteilnamiquili.) acordarseme deloque otro cometio o hizo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 37v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

(I)LNĀMIQUILIĀ applic. (I)LNĀMIQU(I) (I)LNĀMIQU(I) vrefl,vt; pret: (I)LNĀMIC for memory to return, sharpen; to remember, reflect on something / se refrescará la memoria de esto (C for future tense), acordarse de una cosa, imaginar, pensar, reflexionar, considerar (S) A common variant has EL for (I)L.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 104

Attestations from sources in English: 

ilnamiquilia = to remember, to call to mind
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 155.