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nalcaqui.

Headword: 
nalcaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to hear something from a distance (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nālcaqui
IPAspelling: 
nɑːlkɑki
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀLCAQU(I) vt to hear something from a distance / lo está oyendo de afuera o de lejos (Z for construction with the verb O) [(1)Zp.190]. See NĀL-, CAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 158.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nal. y Nalco. no se halla sino con este nombre, atl. analco. aunque si, en composicion. v.g. nalquiça. naltona. Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocabulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones que en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 11r.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)