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etequi.

Headword: 
etequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to pick beans by hand or with a knife (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
eteki
Alonso de Molina: 

etequi. n. (pret. onetec.) coger frisoles con la mano, o con cuchillo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ETEQU(I) See E-TL, TEQU(I). E-TL bean / frijol, o haba (M) The common variant YE-TL is caused by regular glide formation affecting word-initial E in certain dialects, of which T and X are two. TEQU(I) vt; pret: TEC to cut something / cortar algo (M).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.

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