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nehuiltia.

Headword: 
nehuiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to compare something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nehuiltiā
IPAspelling: 
newiltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NEHUILTIĀ vt to compare something / lo compara (Z) [(2)Zp.31,190]. An unattested verb *NEHUILIĀ underlies the reduplicated forms NEHNEHUILIĀ and NĒNEHUILIĀ, and this appears to be the causative form of it.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 163.