a worker or tribute-payer; laborer, one who delivers tribute (see Molina and Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
tekitini
Alonso de Molina:
tequitini. trabajador o tributario. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 105v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TEQUITINI pl: -MEH laborer, worker, one who delivers tribute / trabajador o tributario (M) [(1)Tp.226]. See TEQUITI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 233.