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iquiti.

Headword:

iquiti.

Principal English Translation:

to weave cloth (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

ihquiti

IPAspelling:

ihkiti

Alonso de Molina:

iquiti. ni. texer tela.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 42r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

(I)HQUITI to weave cloth / tejer tela (M) [(7)Zp.120,150,188,208]. See TLAHQUITĪL-LI
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 99.

Attestations from sources in English:

cuix otitzauh otiquit otelemic ànoço ytla oc zentlamantli tequitl oticchiuh = Did you spin, weave, till the soil or do some other work
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 99.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

cuix otitzauh otiquit otelemic ànoço ytla oc zentlamantli tequitl oticchiuh = hilando, texiendo, arando, o trabaxando de otra manera
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 98–99.

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Textiles, Clothing