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tlayacanquetza.

Headword: 
tlayacanquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to advance, to take the lead (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayacānquetza
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑyɑkɑːnketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAYACĀNQUETZ(A) vrefl to advance, to take the lead / se adelanta (Z) [(2)Zp.5,173]. See YACĀN(A), QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 304.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites