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tzacuia.

Headword: 
tzacuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to be the last of all

Alonso de Molina: 

tzacuia. nite vel. nitla. (pret. onitetzacui vel. onitlatzacui.) ser el postrero y vltimo de todos. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Here's an example of the transitive version of the verb: Ca san ixquich nictzaqua yni nococoxcatlatol = That is all. I conclude this my sick person's statement ( (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1693) Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 132.