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nenecuilli.

Headword: 
nenecuilli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of tree (Inga jinicuil) (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
nenekwilli
Frances Karttunen: 

NENECUIL-LI pl: -TIN a type of tree (Inga jinicuil) / jinicuil (K) This is attested only as the second element of CUAUH-NENECUIL-LI 'jinicuil tree.' It is certainly related to M's nenecuiloa 'to stagger, meander this way and that.' It is possible that the absolutive suffix should be -IN, because this is attested only in T, where there is an ambiguity between absolutive -LI and -IN in cases where the stem ends in L. See NECUILOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 167.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora