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ayuh nitecaqui.

Headword: 
ayuh nitecaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to get something backwards, understand it backwards (see Molina; who gives this in the first person singular); to guess the secret intention of someone or their dishonest idea (see Siméon)

Orthographic Variants: 
aiuh nitecaqui
Alonso de Molina: 

ayuh nitecaqui. (pret. ayuh onitecac.) entender al reues la cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ayuh nite-caqui = adivinar la intención secreta o la idea disimulada de alguien
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (1977), 20.

See also: 
aiuh.
aiuhcayotl.