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tlalaqui.

Headword: 
tlalaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to enter or sink into the Earth; e.g., for a building to settle or sink (see Molina; Engl. transl. here by SW)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlɑki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalaqui. hazer assiento o hundirse el edificio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlalaqui = to put into land, to bury; aqui = to enter; aquia (causative) = to make enter, to put in
Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings