NĒNTEQUITI to labor in vain, to no end / trabaja en balde, en vano (T) [(3).167]. T forms the preterit of this by dropping the final vowel, but M forms the preterit of TEQUITI by adding -C. See NĒN, TEQUITI.
NĒNTEQUITILIĀ applic. NĒNTEQUITI.
NĒNTEQUITĪHUA nonact. NĒNTEQUITI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.