to detain someone or to seize something with one’s hand (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
māquītzquiā
IPAspelling:
mɑːkiːtskiɑː
Frances Karttunen:
MĀQUĪTZQUIĀ vt to detain someone or to seize something with one’s hand / lo detiene con la mano, lo agarra con la mano, lo coge con la mano (T) [(3)Tp. 191]. See MA(I)-TL, QUĪTZQUIĀ.
MĀQUĪTZQUILIĀ applic MĀQUĪTZQUIĀ
MĀQUĪTZQUĪLŌ nonact. MĀQUĪTZQUIĀ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.