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tzintelaquia.

Headword: 
tzintelaquia.
Principal English Translation: 

to sit down hard; to make someone sit down hard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzīntelaquiā
IPAspelling: 
tsiːntelɑkiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪNTELAQUIĀ vrefl,vt to sit down hard; to make someone sit down hard / se da un sentón (T), le da un sentón (T) [(6)Tp.162,214]. M has tzintelaquitihuetzi ‘to slip and fall on one’s rump’ and several verbs with tel as the first element with the sense of kicking or shoving.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 313.