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tetecuitza.

Headword: 
tetecuitza.
Principal English Translation: 

to stomp or make noise with one's feet (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tetekwitsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tetecuitza. nitla. hazer estruendo con los pies.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 106v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TETECUITZ(A) vt to stomp, to make noise with one's feet / hacer estruendo con los pies (M) [(3)Cf.74v,121v]. This is attested with TLA- and as an intransitive with no object prefix at all. See TECUĪN(I).

TETECUECHILIĀ applic. TETECUITZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 234.