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tencui.

Headword: 
tencui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be in dispute; to copy something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēncui
IPAspelling: 
teːnkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNCUI vrefl, vt to be in dispute; to copy something / se dispute (Z), lo imita (Z) [(4)Zp.46,70,174,197]. In both attestations of the reflexive Z gives this with a final glottal stop, and there is no information about the preterit form. The second element of the transitive form is given as CUI, preterit CUIC. See TĒN-TLI, CUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225.