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hualneci.

Headword: 
hualneci.
Principal English Translation: 

to come into view (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huālnēci, hualnezi
IPAspelling: 
wɑːlneːsi
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀLNĒC(I) to come into view / se parece (C) [(1)Cf.89v]. See HUĀL-, NĒC(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 81.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

omotlaliaya in zitlalin tonali ycalaquian zan on tlayoá hualnezi = Se ponía la estrella hacia al ocaso: luego que anochecía se observaba (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 101.