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tlancuaquetza.

Headword: 
tlancuaquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to kneel (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanquaquetza
Alonso de Molina: 

tlanquaquetza. nino. (pret. oninotlanquaquetz.) hincarse de rodillas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 129v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

motlanquaquetzaque yn Confradiasme qtozque ce pnr = the members of the cofradía will kneel down, say one Pater Noster
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 116–117.

hiyxpãtzinco. motlanquaquetz. q’motlapalhui = he knelt before her, he greeted her (early seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 105.

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