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tlancuaica.

Headword: 
tlancuaica.
Principal English Translation: 

to kneel, to be kneeling (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlancuāihca
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnkwɑːihkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANCUĀIHCA preterit-as-present verb; pret: -IHCAC to kneel, to be kneeling / se hinca de rodillas (Z) [(2)Zp.68,211]. See TLANCUĀ(I)-TL, IHCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 284.