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mateca.

Headword: 
mateca.
Principal English Translation: 

to pull up weeds (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mātēca
IPAspelling: 
mɑːteːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀTĒCA vt to pull up weeds / arranca (yerba), roza (T), desyerba (Z) [(3)Tp. 233, (2) Zp. 45, 210]. The nonspecific object prefix TLA- appears to be fused to the stem in this verb. See MĀ(I)-TL, TĒCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 138.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock raising