NĒNCĀHU(I) to be in vain / ser en balde (K) [(2)Tp.167J. T only gives a gloss for the negation of this, AHMŌ NĒNCĀHU(I) 'not to be in vain, hopeless.' The preterit of this verb contrasts in vowel length with -NENCĀUH 'one's servant.' See NĒN-CĀHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 167.