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tlaquechia.

Headword: 
tlaquechia.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑketʃiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaquechia. nino. (pret. oninotlaquechi.) estribar o sustentarse sobre algun bordon, o muleta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAQUECHIĀ vrefl to support oneself on a crutch, staff / estribar o sustentarse sobre algún bordón o muleta (M) [(2)Cf.50r, (4)Tp.153]. See QUECHIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.

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