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techtia.

Headword: 
techtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to become possessor or custodian of something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
techtiā
IPAspelling: 
tetʃtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

techtia. nicno. (pret. onicnotechti.) aplicar, o apropiar algo para si.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TECHTIĀ vrefl to become possessor or custodian of something / se hace poseedor, se hace dueño (T) [(3)Tp.158]. M has this as a double object verb taking both a reflexive prefix and a specific object prefix and with the sense 'to take something as one's own, to appropriate something.' See -TECH.

TECHTĪLŌ nonact. TECHTIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.