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nehnehuilia.

Headword: 
nehnehuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to equal something else, to make things equal or paired with one another, to compare things (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nehnehuiliā
IPAspelling: 
nehnewiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NEHNEHUILIĀ vt to equal something else, to make things equal or paired with one another, to compare things / ser igual a otros (M), emparejar o igualar algunas cosas o hacer comparación o concordancias de unas cosas a otras (M) [(2)Rp.70,110]. P also attests this with a glottal stop in the first syllable, while C has NĒNEHUILIĀ and T has NENEHUILIĀ 'to weigh, consider, imagine something,' which is probably just this item with T's characteristic loss of glottal stop. See NĒNEHUILIĀ, NENEHUILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 162.