to become enmeshed, tangled; to catch something, to wrap or roll up something (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tetecuīnoā
IPAspelling:
tetekwiːnoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TETECUĪNOĀ vrefl.vt to become enmeshed, tangled; to catch something, to wrap or roll up something / se enreda, se revuelca (Z), lo enreda, lo enrolla, lo rueda (Z) [(7)Zp.52,110,111,174,197]. This does not seem to be related to TECUĪN(I) 'for a fire to roar, for one's heart to pound.' See TECUĪNALTIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 233.