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anqui.

Headword: 
anqui.
Principal English Translation: 

rider or hunter, or something long (see Molina and Karttuen); anque or anqueh = hunters

IPAspelling: 
ɑːnki
Alonso de Molina: 

anqui. montero, o cazador, o cosa luenga o larga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 6r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀNQUI something long / cosa luenga o larga (M)[(1)Tp.136].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 11.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh in tlamanj, in anque, motlaltoca = And the trappers, the hunters, take cover.
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, foio 15 recto, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/15r