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yectema.

Headword: 
yectema.
Principal English Translation: 

to tune something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēctēma
IPAspelling: 
yeːkteːmɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCTĒM(A) vt; pret: -TĒN to tune something / lo afina (guitarra, etc) [(3)Tp.219]. See YĒC-TLI, TĒM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.