to make someone run, to rush someone; or, to cause an illness to worsen (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
totōquītiā
IPAspelling:
totoːkiːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TOTŌQUĪTIĀ altern. caus. TOTŌCA.
TOTŌCA to run, to hurry, for illness to worsen / ir de priesa o correr, empeorar o crecer la enfermedad (M). Despite the apparent affinity of meaning, this is not derived by reduplication from TOCA ‘to pursue someone’, since they differ in transitivity and in vowel length. C contrasts this with TŌTOCA ‘to run after something’, which is genuine reduplicated derivation from TOCA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.