TIHTICUĪNALTIĀ vt to puncture, perforate something / lo punza (Z) [(2).103,198]. Both attestations in Z mark the vowel of the fourth syllable long, although by general rule it should be short. caus. TIHTICUĪN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 240.