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nemachtilli.

Headword: 
nemachtilli.
Principal English Translation: 

study, learning (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nemachtīlli
IPAspelling: 
nemɑtʃtiːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

NEMACHTĪL-LI study, learning / el estudio, el aprender (C) [(1)Cf.46r]. C marks the vowel of the first syllable long, which is incorrect. See NEMACHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 165.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nemachctilli = estudio, el aprender algo (Tetzcoco, 1595)
Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana, 36, reproducida digitalmente por el Internet Archive, http://archive.org/stream/artemexicana00rincrich/artemexicana00rincrich_....

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