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tlaaqui.

Headword: 
tlaaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

for a fruit tree to produce fruit, bear fruit (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaāqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑɑːki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAĀQU(I) pret: TLAĀC for a fruit tree to produce / frutificarse el árbol o cosa así (M in construction with ĪTECH) [(7)Zp.34,102,128,150,204,224]. In all attestations Z marks the second vowel long. If this is correct, then the basic verb stem cannot be AQU(I) ‘to enter’.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 250.