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caquilia.

Headword: 
caquilia.
Principal English Translation: 

hear; listen; understand what others say (applicative form of caqui)

IPAspelling: 
kɑkiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

caquilia. nicte. (pret. onictecaquili.) oyr lo que otros dizen.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAQUILIĀ vt to hear what others say / oir lo que otros dicen (M) applic. CAQU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 25.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

caquilia, nic. to hear the words, advice, etc., of someone. Class 3: ōniccaquilih. applicative of caqui.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)