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tlaquentia.

Headword: 
tlaquentia.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkeːntiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaquentia. nino. (pret. oninotlaquenti.) vestirse, o arroparle.
tlaquentia. nite. (pret. onitetlaquenti.) vestir a otro assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAQUĒNTIĀ vrefl, vt to get dressed; to dress someone / vestirse o arroparse (M), vestir a otro así (M) T has short I for Ē in the second syllable. This is synonymous with TLAQUĒMILTIĀ. They are alternative causative forms of unattested *TLAQUĒM(I). See QUĒM(I).

TLAQUĒNTILIĀ applic. TLAQUĒNTIĀ.

TLAQUĒNTĪLŌ nonact. TLAQUĒNTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 294.