acalaquia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

acalaquia.

Headword:

acalaquia.

Principal English Translation:

to dive; to submerge something; to send someone off in the water; to push something under the water; or, to flood something

IPAspelling:

ɑːkɑlɑkiɑː

Alonso de Molina:

acalaquia. nitla. (pret. onitlaacalaqui.) meter algo debaxo del agua, o hundirlo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 1r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

acalaquia. nite. (pret. oniteacalaqui.) embarcar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 1r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

ĀCALAQUIĀ vrefl,vt to dive; to submerge something / se bucea (de bucear), se mete en el agua (Z), meter algo debajo del agua, o hundirlo (M)[(2)Zp.21,167]. See Ā-TL, CALAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 2.

themes:

Water