to recoup one’s losses, to get square; to return, restore something (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
mācuepa
IPAspelling:
mɑːkwepɑ
Frances Karttunen:
MĀCUEP(A) vrefl,vt to recoup one’s losses, to get square; to return, restore something / se desquita, se venga (Z), lo recompensa (Z), lo devuelve (Z) [(5)Zp. 44,45,128,189]. Z has this as both MĀCUEP(A) and MĀQUEP(A), apparently synonymous. See MĀ(I)-TL, CUEPA.
MĀQUEP(A) See MĀCUEP(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 129.