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maxitia.

Headword: 
maxitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to complete something, to make something whole (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahxītiā
IPAspelling: 
mɑhʃiːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHXĪTIĀ vt to complete something, to make something whole / lo completa (Z) [(2)Zp. 31,189]. M has maxiltia ‘to supply something that was missing,’ which is clearly an alternate causative form of a verb that underlies this verb too. It appears to be a reflexive form of the verb AHCI ‘to arrive, reach’ with the reflexive prefix fused to the stem. M also has macic ‘something whole.’ See AHCI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 133.