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tlacuia.

Headword: 
tlacuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to borrow

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacuia. nino. (pret. oninotlacui.) tomar algo prestado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUIĀ vrefl, vt to borrow; to borrow for someone / tomar algo prestado (M), lo pide prestado por otro (M) [(6)Tp.159,207]. Outside the sources for this dictionary this sometimes appears written as tlahcuia, suggesting that T has lost an internal glottal stop. See CUI. TLACUILIĀ applic. TLACUIĀ. TLACUĪLŌ nonact. TLACUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 258.