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macui.

Headword: 
macui.
Principal English Translation: 

to baptize someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahcui
IPAspelling: 
mɑhkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHCUI vt to baptize someone / lo bautiza (Z) [(4)Zp.19, 189,209]. See MĀCUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 130.