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tlaquehua.

Headword: 
tlaquehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to let, rent; to hire

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaqueua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkeːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaqueua. nite. (pret. onitetlaqueuh.) alquilar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀQUĒHU(A) vt to hire someone / alquilar a otro (M), lo alquila, lo arrienda, lo renta (Z) [(3)Zp.9,14,196]. Z has apparently extended this to the hiring of things as well as people and services.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 294.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nicmacac ytomines yc tetlaqueuazqui = le dí tomines para su contratación (Ocotelulco, 1591)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 248-249.

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