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nemoani.

Headword: 
nemoani.
Principal English Translation: 

that which gives one life (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
nemoaloni, nemoanj
Attestations from sources in English: 

nemoanj (nemoani) = that which gives one life (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 132.

o yeva y o yehoa I, yn nemoaloni = this, this is a life worthy of being lived (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 240.

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Philosophy
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)