xochitequi. ni. (pret. onixochitec) coger flores, o rosas del rosal. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
xuchitequi. ni. coger flores o rosas del rosal. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
XŌCHITEQU(I) See XŌCHI-TL, TEQU(I).
XŌCHI-TL pl: -MEH flower / rosa, o flor (M) As a modifier this has the sense ‘something precious, delicate,’ It is also conventionally paired with CUĪCA-TL ‘song’ to refer to poetry.
TEQU(I) vt; pret: TEC to cut something / cortar algo (M). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.