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cemmaniyan.

Headword: 
cemmaniyan.
Principal English Translation: 

ultimately, perpetually, forever (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cemmaniyān, cenmaniyan
IPAspelling: 
semmɑniyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

CEMMANIYĀN ultimately, perpetually, forever / de todo en todo , o ultimadamente (M), enteramente, formalmente, finalmente, perpetuamente (S) C consistently writes the MM sequence as nm. M’s cemana ‘to continue something on to the end, to persevere in something’ must be related to this by degemination of MM . See CEM, MAN(I) -YĀN.

CENMANIYĀN See CEMMANIYĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 30.

See also: 
cemanahuatl.
cemanahuac.