to entrust someone with something for safekeeping (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tecoā
IPAspelling:
tekoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TECOĀ vt to entrust someone with something safekeeping / lo encarga (Z) [(2)Zp.50,196]. M has this used reflexively in construction with ĪC and meaning 'to do something on purpose.' Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.