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tecoa.

Headword: 
tecoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to entrust someone with something for safekeeping (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecoā
IPAspelling: 
tekoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TECOĀ vt to entrust someone with something safekeeping / lo encarga (Z) [(2)Zp.50,196]. M has this used reflexively in construction with ĪC and meaning 'to do something on purpose.'
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.