Principal English Translation:
to take a seat
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), 218.
Alonso de Molina:
uetzitia. nino. (pret. oninouetziti.) assentarse persona de calidad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
HUETZĪTIĀ altern. caus. HUETZ(I). HUETZ(I) to fall / caer (M).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 87.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
nino. causative reverential of huetzi, usually meaning to take a seat. 218
Attestations from sources in English:
huetzītia = let fall Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 190.