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neltia.

Headword: 
neltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to prove true, to be verified, to be realized (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
neltiā
IPAspelling: 
neltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NELTIĀ to prove true, to be verified, to be realized / hacerse verdadero ... verificarse, cumplirse (C) [(2)Cf.58v,110v]. C gives this as synonymous with NELTI. S provides the preterit form onelti. If this is correct, assuming the vowel of the second syllable to be unmarked for length rather than specifically short, the future form neltiz on Cf.110v is ambiguous between the two. On the other hand, a verb with the form NELTIĀ should be transitive. B's NELTIY(A) would be the intransitive, and S's preterit form, on which this entry is based, may simply be an error. See NELTI, NELTIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 164.