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ixnenehuilia.

Headword: 
ixnenehuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to resemble someone in the face (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ixneneuilia
IPAspelling: 
iːʃnenewiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ixneneuilia. nite. (pret. oniteixneneuili.) parecer a otro enel rostro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 46r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXNENEHUILIĀ vt to resemble someone, to estimate something, to examine something / parecer a otro en el rostro (M), lo calcula, lo examina (T)[(3)Tp.217]. See ĪX-TLI, NENEHUILIĀ

ĪXNENEHUILILIĀ applic. ĪXNENEHUILIĀ

ĪXNENEHUILĪLŌ nonact. ĪXNENEHUILIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 116.