to sprinkle something on someone, something (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tēquiā
IPAspelling:
teːkiɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TĒQUIĀ vrefl,vt to sprinkle something on someone, something / derramar, echar (K) This is abundantly attested in T but always compounded with Ā-TL 'water' or . CUĀ(I)-TL 'head' and generally having to do with baptism. See TĒCA.
TĒQUĪLŌ nonact. TĒQUIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 232.