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tlacaqui.

Headword: 
tlacaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to hear or understand; to have an audience (see Molina); to listen (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkɑki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacaqui. ni. (pret. onitlacac.) oyr o entender, o tener audiencia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACAQU(I) pret: TLACAC to listen, to understand, to hold a hearing / oir o entender o tener audiencia (M) [(1)Bf.12v]. This attested in a distributive form that reduplicates the TLA- rather than CA, indicating that prefix TLA- has been fused with the stem. See CAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.

IDIEZ morfema: 
tlacaqui.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to obey.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
ni. Macehualli axcanah tlanahnanquilia quemman quiilliah zo quinahuatiah ce tlamantli. “Joaquin quemman quitlaihilliah ichan quena tlacaqui pampa tlahuel quintlepanitta itatah huan inanan. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
A. Una persona que no responde cuando le dicen o le mandan algo. “Cuando me dicen cosas buenas en mi casa si obedezco porque si no lo hago eso entnces me regañan”. B. Una persona que no responde.
IDIEZ morfología: 
tla1, caqui.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.
themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)