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matequi.

Headword: 
matequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut oneself or injure one's hand with a knife; to cut someone's hand with a knife; to prune vines or trees (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːteki
Alonso de Molina: 

matequi. nino. (pret. oninomatec.) cortarse, o herirse la mano con cuchillo. &c.
matequi. nite. (pret. onitematec.) cortar la mano a otro assi.
matequi. nitla. (pret. onitlamatec.) podar vides o arboles.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MĀTEQU(I) vrefl, vt to cut one’s hand; to cut someone’s hand, to prune trees / cortar o herirse la mano con cuchillo (M), corta la mano a otro así (M), podar vides o árboles (M) [(1)Cf. 127r]. C contrasts the present reflexive MAHTEQUIĀ ‘to wash one’s hands.’ See MĀ(I)-TL, TEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 138.

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