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cetica.

Headword: 
cetica.
Principal English Translation: 

instrumental construction with one of something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cētica
IPAspelling: 
seːtikɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CĒTICA instrumental construction with one of something / un (C) con ninguno ( C for negated form ) [(4)Cf.19v,86r]. M and C both give examples with CŌHU(A) ‘to buy something’ where CĒTICA means ‘one real’s worth.’ See CĒ, -CA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 33.