to praise someone; to boast; to speak well of someone and bolster their good reputation (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
yeːkihtoɑː
Alonso de Molina:
yequitoa. nite. (pret. oniteyequito.) alabar a otro.
yequitoa. nino. (pret. oninoyequito.) alabarse. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 36r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
abonar a otro enla fama. nite, yequitoa. nite, qualitoa. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1v.
Frances Karttunen:
YĒQUIHTOĀ vt to praise someone or something, to declare something, to explain something / alabar a otro (M), lo afirma, lo declara, lo explica (T) [(3)Tp.219]. See YĒC-TLI, (I)HTOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 339.