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telochcui.

Headword: 
telochcui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be taken by surprise; to diminish or drain something (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
telotʃkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TELOCHCUI vrefl,vt to be taken by surprise; to diminish or drain something / sobresalta, se sorprende (T), lo achica (p. ej. agua cuando hay poca en la tinaja) (T) [(7)Tp.158,203].

TELOCHCUĪHUA altern. nonact. TELOCHCUI.

TELOCHCUĪHUA altern. nonact. TELOCHCUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.