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tecuiya.

Headword: 
tecuiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to wrap something, to entangle something (see Karttunen), to bundle (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tehcuiya, tecuia
IPAspelling: 
tehkwiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TEHCUIY(A) vt-, pret: TEHCUIX to wrap something, to entangle something / devanar, envolver, o liar algo (M), lo envuelve, lo enreda (T) [(3)Tp.203]. See (I)HCUIY(A).

TEHCUIYALŌ nonact. TEHCUIY(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 218.