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acicacaqui.

Headword: 
acicacaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to understand or to come to know something entirely

Orthographic Variants: 
ahcicacaqui
IPAspelling: 
ɑhsikɑːkɑki
Alonso de Molina: 

acicacaqui. nitla. (pret. onicacicacac.) comprehender, o alcançar a saber enteramente la cosa, o el negocio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 2r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

AHCICĀCAQU(I) vt to understand something completely / comprender o alcanzar a saber enteramente la cosa o el negocio (M)[(2)Rp.43,100]. See AHCI, CAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 4.

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