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poztequi.

Headword: 
poztequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to split, to break lengthwise (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
posteki
Frances Karttunen: 

POZTEQU(I) vrefl.vt; pret: -TEC to split, to break lengthwise; to break something lengthwise / se quiebra, quiebra la dirección en que va (T), quebrar palo o cosa así (M), lo quiebra (T) T also gives this as an intransitive with the same meaning as the reflexive. POZTEQUILIĀ applic. POZTEQU(I). POZTEQUĪHUA nonact. POZTEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 205.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Onpehua yn tepantli Xalatzinco atlauhtli hualmopostequi Tlamimilolticpac cohuatepantli = Que empieza el lindero Xalatzingo, la barranca, luego tuerce por la loma arriba que le dicen Coatepantli (San Baltasar Tochpan, Tlaxcala, s. XVI)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 68–69.