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nenetz.

Headword: 
nenetz.
Principal English Translation: 

twin (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nenētz
IPAspelling: 
neneːts
Frances Karttunen: 

NENĒTZ twin / cuate, gemelo (Z) [(4)Zp.36,63,177]. Z gives NENĒTZTIC as an alternative form. Relationship to NĒNETECH 'close together' is plausible, but the vowel length values are reversed.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent