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ciauhquetza.

Headword: 
ciauhquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to greet another person

IPAspelling: 
siɑwketsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ciauhquetza. nite. vel. nitla. vel. nonte. (pret. oniteciauhquetz. vel. onitlaciauhquetz. vel. ononteciauhquetz.) saludar a otro
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CIAUHQUETZ(A) vt to greet, salute someone /saludar a otro (M) [(1)Bf.13r,(2)Cf.67v]. The sense of this does not follow literally from its component elements. See CIAHU(I), QUETZ(A). CIAUHQUECHILIĀ applic. CIAUHQUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 34.