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temachia.

Headword: 
temachia.
Principal English Translation: 

to trust, to have confidence in; to wait for someone or something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːmɑtʃiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

temachia. nino. vel. nitla. (pret. oninotemachi.) vel. onitlatemachi
confiar o esperar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

temachia. nite. (pret. onitetemachi.) confiar o esperar en otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMACHIĀ vrefl,vt to expect or have confidence in someone or something; to have expectations of someone / confiar o esperar algo (M), confiar o esperar en otro (M) [(3)Bf.2v,5V,(1)Cf.87v]. See MACHIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 221.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

to have confidence in, look to. Class 3: ōnictēmachih. ultimately based on mati.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 233.

Attestations from sources in English: 

temachia (verb) = to have confidence in, to expect, to hope for
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 162.