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tencaqui.

Headword: 
tencaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to listen to someone, to court someone (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēncaqui
IPAspelling: 
teːnkɑki
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNCAQU(I) vt to listen to someone, to court someone / lo escucha (T), lo enamora (Z) [(3)Tp.205, (2)Zp.50,197]. See TĒN-TLI, CAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 224.