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yacahuitequi.

Headword: 
yacahuitequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to strike one's own nose (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yacahuītequi
IPAspelling: 
yɑkɑwiːteki
Frances Karttunen: 

YACAHUĪTEQU(I) vrefl; pret: -TEC to strike one's own nose / se golpea en la nariz (T) [(3)Tp.163]. See YAC(A)-TL, HUĪTEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 333.

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