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caquizti.

Headword: 
caquizti.
Principal English Translation: 

to sound something; to be heard
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), 213.

IPAspelling: 
kɑkisti
Alonso de Molina: 

caquizti. ni. (pret. onicaquiztic.) sonar, y oyrse bien el que habla, o canta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAQUIZTI to sound, to be heard clearly / sonar, o oirse bien el que habla, o cuenta (M) [(1)Tp.114]. See CAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 25.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

Class 1: ōcaquiztic. related to caqui, has -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), 213.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)