tequiti. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

tequiti.

Principal English Translation:

to perform tribute duty, pay tribute; to work

James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 157.

IPAspelling:

tekiti

Alonso de Molina:

tequiti. ni. (pret. onitequitic.) trabajar o tributar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 105v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

TEQUITI to work or to pay tribute / trabajar o tributar (M) T forms the preterit by dropping the final vowel, but according to M it is formed by adding -C. See TEQUI-TL. TEQUITILIĀ applic. TEQUITI. TEQUITĪHUA nonact. TEQUITI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 233.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

to work, do tribute duty, etc. Class 1: ōnitequitic. tequitl, -ti.
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), 234.

Attestations from sources in English:

y nica cate ayamo tequiti ya qui ya quimacazque y milly = Those who are here do not yet pay any tribute. They will soon give them a field. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 162–163.

ipan tequitiz in tlalli = he or she is to perform tribute duties on the basis of having land Caterina Pizzigoni, Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 27.

tequitia can also mean: he worked
(we need to relocate this source)

themes:

Labor, Work, Labor Concerns

Markets, Commerce, Economy

Tributes, Taxation, Service