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chanquetza.

Headword: 
chanquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to set up housekeeping (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chānquetza
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːnketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀNQUETZ(A) vrefl to set up housekeeping / hace hogar (T) [(3)Tp.149]. See CHĀN-TLI, QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.