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chanti.

Headword: 
chanti.
Principal English Translation: 

to live, to take root in a place, to settle (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chānti
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːnti
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀNTI to live, to take root in a place, to settle / mora, vive, se radica (T) [(1)Tp.126]. See CHĀN-TLI, CHĀNTIĀ.

CHĀNTĪLŌ nonact. CHĀNTI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45, 46.