the act of entrusting something to someone, or giving charge of something to another person, or to promise and commit (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tetech tlacaualiztli
Alonso de Molina:
tetech tlacaualiztli. el acto de encargar oencomendar algo a otro, o de comprometer. &c. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 106v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.