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ixquentataca.

Headword: 
ixquentataca.
Principal English Translation: 

to scratch, rub one’s eyelids (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxquēntataca
IPAspelling: 
iːʃkeːntɑtɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXQUĒNTATACA vrefl to scratch, rub one’s eyelids / rasca los párpados (T) [(3)Tp.143]. The first element of M’s ixquempalli ‘inner side of the eyelid.’ See ĪX-TLI, QUĒM(I)-TL, TATACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 118.