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-tlatequiya.

Headword: 
-tlatequiya.
Principal English Translation: 

one’s cutting instrument (see Karttunen), a necessarily possessed form

IPAspelling: 
-tɬɑtekiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

-TLATEQUIYA necessarily possessed form one’s cutting instrument / el instrumento con que yo corto algo, mi chuchillo, mi hacha (C for first pers. sg. possesor) [(2)Cf.50r,82r]. C states that this possessed form is suppletive with the absolutive form of synonymous TLATECŌNI. See TEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.

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