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nenmaniyan.

Headword: 
nenmaniyan.
Principal English Translation: 

ordinary day, day between festivals (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēnmaniyān
IPAspelling: 
neːnmɑniyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNMANIYĀN ordinary day, day between festivals / entre semana (C) [(3)Cf.106r,114r]. M has nemayan with the same sense. There is no assimilation of the NM sequence in the attestations. The sequence IY is provided here on the model of analogous CEMMANIYĀN. It is written only as y in the attestations. See NĒN, MAN(I), -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.