tenquixtia.

Headword: 
tenquixtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to declare something or make a pronouncement (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːnkiːʃtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tenquixtia. nitla. (pret. onitlatenquixti.) declarar o pronunciar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 99v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNQUĪXTIĀ vt to declare something / declarar o pronunciar algo (M) [(1)Bf.5v, (I)Tp.227]. T consistently has the reflex of a short vowel in the first syllable of QUĪXTIĀ and all its compounds, but B marks it long for this item, as it should be by general rule. caus. TĒNQUĪZ(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tenquixtia (verb) = to speak forth, to pronounce, to declare
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 163.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition