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netechhuia.

Headword: 
netechhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to contend with and mistreat people within a kin group or family (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
netechuia
Alonso de Molina: 

netechuia tito. (pret. otitonetechuique.) contender y tratarse mallos de vna parentela o familia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 69v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

za ye otechon netechuh = solo nos confrontaba (Tlaxcala, 1563)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en Náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 27.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent
War, Conflict