to mistreat someone for no good reason (see Karttunen and Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
nempeualtia
IPAspelling:
neːmpeːwɑltiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
nempeualtia. nite. (pret. onitenempeualti.) maltratar a otro sin causa. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
NĒMPĒHUALTIĀ vt to mistreat someone for no good reason / maltratar a otro sin causa (M) [(1)Cf.77r,(3)Tp.193]. See NĒN, PĒHUALTIĀ, NĒMPĒHU(I).
NEMPEHUALTILIĀ applic. NĒMPĒHUALTIĀ.
NĒMPĒHUALTĪLŌ nonact. NĒMPĒHUALTIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 166.