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nalquixtia.

Headword: 
nalquixtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to penetrate with an arrow or a shot from a harquebus (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
nɑːlkiːʃtiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

nalquixtia. nitla. vel. nite. (pret. onitlanalquixti.) passar algo de para parte con saeta o arcabuz.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

nalquixtia (verb) = to cause to penetrate, causative of nalquiza, to penetrate
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 158.

See also, nal.

themes: 
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry