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cactia.

Headword: 
cactia.
Principal English Translation: 

to put on one's shoes (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kɑktiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

cactia. nino. (pret. oninocacti.) calzarse los zapatos, o cacles.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

cactia. nite. (pret. onitecacti.) calzar zapatos a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CACTIĀ vrefl, vt to put on one’s shoes; to put shoes on someone / calzarse los zapatos, o cacles (M), calzar zapatos a otro (M) See CAC-TLI. CACTILIĀ applic. CACTIĀ CACTĪLŌ nonact. CACTIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.