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yecnemi.

Headword: 
yecnemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to live well, honorably (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēcnemi
IPAspelling: 
yeːknemi
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCNEM(I) pret: -NEN to live well, honorably / vives bien (C for second pers. sg. subject), honrado (Z) [(1)Cf.76v, (2)Zp.68,230]. M has derivations from YĒCNEM(I) but not the verb itself. Z treats this as a substantive ‘someone honorable.’ See YĒC-TLI, NEM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 336.