MĀTĒCA vt to pull up weeds / arranca (yerba), roza (T), desyerba (Z) [(3)Tp. 233, (2) Zp. 45, 210]. The nonspecific object prefix TLA- appears to be fused to the stem in this verb. See MĀ(I)-TL, TĒCA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 138.