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tlachtequi.

Headword: 
tlachtequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to steal something (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

Ichtecqui. ladron.
Ichtectli. cosa hurtada.
Ichtequiliztli. el acto de hurtar.
Ichtequini. ladron .
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 32v)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlachtequi = to steal
Geoffrey D. Kimball, A Dictionary of the Huazalinguillo Dialect of Nahuatl (1980), 60.

tlachtequi = tla (something) + ichtequi (to steal)
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment