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quenamicatzintli.

Headword: 
quenamicatzintli.
Principal English Translation: 

a respectful greeting; how are you? (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
keːnɑmihkɑːtsintɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

quenamicatzintli? de que manera es su merced o señoria?
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUĒNAMIHCĀTZINTLI a respectful greeting / ¿de qué manera es su merced o señoría? (M) [(2)Cf.115v,116r]. See QUĒNAMIH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 209.

themes: 
Greetings, Salutations