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quechia.

Headword: 
quechia.
Principal English Translation: 

to support something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechiā
IPAspelling: 
ketʃiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHIĀ vt to support something / se apoya (T for refl. MĀTLAQUECHIĀ) [(2)Cf.50r,(4)Tp.153,(2)Zp.56,187]. This appears without TLA- only in Z, where CUAUHTŌC 'stake' is incorporated into the verb. See TLAQUECHIĀ, QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 206.