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matlaquechia.

Headword: 
matlaquechia.
Principal English Translation: 

to lean on something, support oneself with something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mātlaquechiā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːtɬɑketʃiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀTLAQUECHIĀ vrefl to lean on something, support oneself with something / se apoya ( T for ĪTECHMOMĀTLAQUECHIĀ ) [(4)Tp. 153]. This I used in construction with a possessed form of the postposition –TECH. See MĀ(I)-TL, TLAQUECHIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 139.