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temac.

Headword: 
temac.
Principal English Translation: 

in someone's hands (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teːmɑːk
Alonso de Molina: 

temac. enlas manos de alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMĀC in someone's hands, at the hands of someone / en las manos de alguno (M), en manos de la justicia o de mis enemigos (C) [(1)Cf.115V]. See -MĀC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 221.

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