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icnopilti.

Headword: 
icnopilti.
Principal English Translation: 

irregular verb to prosper in life, to be favored, to attain one’s desires (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
icnōpilti
IPAspelling: 
iknoːpilti
Frances Karttunen: 

(I)CNŌPILTI irregular verb to prosper in life, to be favored, to attain one’s desires / obtener lo que se desea, ser feliz, recibir favores, enriquecerse (S) This has only a singular form and takes possessive prefixes rather than subject prefixes, AMOCNŌPILTI ‘you are favored, you prosper.’ The preterit is (I)CNŌPILTIC, the future (I)CNŌPILTIZ. No other forms are used. See (I)CNŌPIL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 94.