to grasp something, to take something in one’s hand (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
mācui
IPAspelling:
mɑːkwi
Frances Karttunen:
MĀCUI vt to grasp something, to take something in one’s hand / lo coge en la mano, lo agarra con la mano (T) [(3)Tp. 191]. Z has MAHCUI ‘to baptize’ and TLAMAHCUĪLIZ-TLI ‘baptism’ which may be variants of this verb in the sense of faith taking one into its hands or being bestowed by the laying on of hands. See MĀ(I)-TL, CUI.
MĀCUILIĀ applic. MĀCUI
MĀCUILĪLŌ nonact. MĀCUI Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 130.