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nenepiltia.

Headword: 
nenepiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

for ears of corn to bud; to serve as a spokesman or translator (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nenepiltiā
IPAspelling: 
nenepiltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NENEPILTIĀ vrefl.vt for ears of corn to bud; to serve as a spokesman or translator / brotar la marzorca de maíz en la caña (M), (se sirve como) lengua ... hablar por ellos (C) [(1)Cf.58r]. The literal sense of this has to do with becoming like or serving as a tongue. See NENEPIL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Occupations, Responsibilities