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aquia.

Headword: 
aquia.
Principal English Translation: 

to put something into something else; to put oneself into, to make enter; to put something on or wear (in reflexive); to add something to what is being said; add something to a story; to thread a needle; to transplant trees or drive stakes; or to push poles or something of this nature through a hole (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ɑkiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

Aquia. niqual. añadir algo alo que se cuenta yre lata. Prete. oniqualaqui.
Aquia. nonn. vestirse camisa o vestidura cerrada. Preterito. ononnaqui.
Aquia. nitla. trasponer arboles, hincar estacas, o meter algo en agujero. Preteri. onitlaaqui.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 7v.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

to plant or transplant, etc. Class 3: onicaquih. from aqui. (2), nocon. to put on some tight fitting garment. Class 3: onoconaquih. In Molina the verb in this meaning is given as nonnaquia, reflexive with no other obj.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 211.