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tequimaca.

Headword: 
tequimaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to assign tribute, tasks, or posts to people; to cost someone effort (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tekimɑkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tequimaca. nite. (pret. onitetequimacac.) repartir tributo, o officio, o tarea a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 105r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEQUIMACA vt to assign tribute, tasks, or posts to people, to cost someone effort / repartir tributo o oficio, o tarea a otros (M), le cuesta (T) [(3)Tp.204]. This contrasts with C's TEQUIHMACA 'to drink to excess.' See TEQUI-TL, MACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 232.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yquac q’[ui]ntequimacaque in telpopochtin yhua[n] ychpopochtin. = Y entonces cargaron el tributo a los jóvenes y a las doncellas. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 146.