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tomaquetza.

Headword: 
tomaquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to get down on all fours; to set someone, something on all fours (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōmāquetza
IPAspelling: 
toːmɑːketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌMĀQUETZ(A) viefl,vt to get down on all fours; to set someone, something on all fours / se pone en cuatro pies (T), le pone en cuatro pies (T) [(6)Tp.171,213]. See MĀ(I)-TL, QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 245.