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tɑtɑkɑ

to dig in the earth; to scratch something; to scratch oneself

tɑtɑkɑloɑ

to make small holes or something similar

to tie s.t. very tight for s.o.
# nic. Una persona le enreda una cosa que está amarado de otro porque no quiere que desenrede. “Jorge amara la pared de su papá porque él va a la milpa a escardar”.
for thread or string to become tightly entangled.
# nic. Una persona amara a alguien, un animal silvestre, un animal domestico o una cosa muy fuerte con lazo o mecate. “Aquel poste lo he amarado muy bien para que no se caiga”.
to tie s.t. very tight.
# nic. Una persona amara a alguien, un animal silvestre, un animal domestico o una cosa muy fuerte con lazo o mecate. “Aquel poste lo he amarado muy bien para que no se caiga”.
tightly tied.
#Una cosa o algo que esta bien amarrado. “El burro de Araceli está muy bien amarrado y por eso lo levanta mucho su parte de atrás porque quiere que lo desaten un poco”.
s.o.’s father.
tɑːtɑhweːi
Orthographic Variants: 
tātahhuēi

grandfather (See Karttunen)

very big, especially referring to the torso (see attestations)

very big, especially when referring to the torso

tɑtɑpɑtʃkeːntiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tatapaua
tɑtɑpɑliwi
Orthographic Variants: 
tatapaliui

to become covered with hives (see Molina); the reduplication suggests many itchy bumps (SW)

tɑtɑpɑliwilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tatapaliuiliztli
tɑtɑpɑhtɬi

worn and mended fabric (see Molina and Karttunen); rags (see Sahagún)

round like a ball

(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), 109.

tɑtɑkiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tataquia
endearing apellative for an elderly man.