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neconi.

Headword: 
neconi.
IPAspelling: 
nekoːni
Alonso de Molina: 

neconi. cosa que es menester y es prouechosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 65r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NECŌNI something that is necessary, beneficial, advantageous / cosa que es menester y es provechosa (M), lo que es digno de quererse y desearse (C) [(1)Cf.44V,(2)Zp.66,177]. Z postposes YA 'already' and cliticizes it to this. See NEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 161.