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tequihuia.

Headword: 
tequihuia.
Orthographic Variants: 
tequiuia
IPAspelling: 
tekiwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tequiuia. nite. (pret. onitetequiui.) importunar algo a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 105v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEQUIHUIĀ vrefl,vt to volunteer oneself; to present something, to beg something of someone / se ofrece (Z), lo ofrece (Z), importunar algo a otro (M) [(4)Zp.90,174,197]. See TEQUI-TL, -HUĪA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 232.