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tzinquiza.

Headword: 
tzinquiza.
Principal English Translation: 

to pull back, retire, retreat; or, for a price to drop (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsiːnkiːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzinquiza. ni. (pret. onitzinquiz.) recular o retirarse enla guerra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪNQUĪZ(A) to retire, to retreat, for a price to drop / retrocede para atrás, se abarata, se rebaja (el precio) (T) See TZĪN-TLI, QUĪZ(A). TZĪNQUĪXTILIĀ applic. TZĪNQUĪZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 313.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ypana ye otzinquisque yn emigos = because the enemies had pulled back
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 126–127.

nimã hualecoc ỹ Justicia ynic oquitaco yn teopantli nimã oquitemacac lisẽsia ynic otzinquis = Then the judge arrived to see the church. Then he issued a license for it to be torn down.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 138–139.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Quipuhuaco çe real probiçio çe jues ynic tzinquiçaz tlacalaquili = Un juez vino a leer una real provisión según la cual rebajaría el tributo (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 476–477.

atzinquiça (por antzinquiça), huís
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (México: Siglo XXI, 1988), xxxv.