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macuepa.

Headword: 
macuepa.
Principal English Translation: 

to recoup one’s losses, to get square; to return, restore something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mācuepa
IPAspelling: 
mɑːkwepɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀCUEP(A) vrefl,vt to recoup one’s losses, to get square; to return, restore something / se desquita, se venga (Z), lo recompensa (Z), lo devuelve (Z) [(5)Zp. 44,45,128,189]. Z has this as both MĀCUEP(A) and MĀQUEP(A), apparently synonymous. See MĀ(I)-TL, CUEPA.

MĀQUEP(A) See MĀCUEP(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 129.