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yechuica.

Headword: 
yechuica.
Principal English Translation: 

to govern someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēchuīca
IPAspelling: 
yeːtʃuiːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCHUĪCA vt to govern someone / gobierna (Z) [(2)Zp.63,191]. See YĒC-TLI, HUĪCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 336.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance