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nexquetza.

Headword: 
nexquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to soak maize in lime water (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
neʃketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NEXQUETZ(A) to soak maize in lime water / pone el nixtamal, encala el maíz (T) [(3)Tp.167). See NEX-TLI, QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Water