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tlatquitia.

Headword: 
tlatquitia.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtkitiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatquitia. nicno. (pret. onicnotlatquiti.) vsurpar, o aplicar para si alguna cosa.
tlatquitia. nite. (pret. onitetlatquiti.) enagenar algo, o embiar alguna cosa a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATQUITIĀ vt to make something the property of someone / enajenar algo o enviar alguna cosa a otro (M) [(2)Cf.58r]. M has this with a direct object prefix plus an oblique reflexive prefix, meaning ‘to appropriate something.' See TLATQUI-TL.

TLATQUITILIĀ applic. See TLATQUITIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 300.