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tlaquequetza.

Headword: 
tlaquequetza.
Principal English Translation: 

for a male bird to copulate with the female (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkeketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAQUEQUETZ(A) for a male bird to copulate with the female / de las aves que se toman… del macho (C) [(1)Cf.128r]. C contrasts this with TLA-QUEHQUETZ(A) ‘to kick out at something in anger.' See QUEQUETZ(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 294.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.