to curse, swear; to curse someone by insulting his mother (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nāntēnēhua
IPAspelling:
nɑːnteːneːwɑ
Frances Karttunen:
NĀNTĒNĒHU(A) vrefl,vt to curse, swear; to curse someone by insulting his mother / mienta la autora de sus días, mienta la madre (T), le mienta la madre (T) [(6)Tp. 154,194]. See NĀN-TLI, TĒNĒHU(A).
NĀNTĒNĒHUILIĀ applic. NĀNTĒNĒHU(A).
NĀNTĒNĒHUALŌ nonact. NĀNTĒNĒHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 159.