to equip something with hands or arms (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
mātiā
IPAspelling:
mɑːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen:
MĀTIĀ vt to equip something with hands or arms / poner manos a la estatura o figura (C) [(1)Cf. 127V]. C contrasts this with MATIYA, the imperfect form of MAT(I). See MA(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 138.