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quechnahuatequi.

Headword: 
quechnahuatequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to hug someone around the neck (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechnāhuahtequi
IPAspelling: 
ketʃnɑːwɑhteki
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHNĀHUAHTEQU(I) vt; pret: -TEC to hug someone around the neck / lo abraza por el cuello (T) [(3)Tp.200]. See QUECH-TLI, NĀHUAHTEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 206.

themes: 
Friendship, Affection