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tequi-

Headword: 
tequi-
Principal English Translation: 

verbal intensifier meaning very much (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tequih-
IPAspelling: 
tekih
Frances Karttunen: 

TEQUIH- verbal intensifier very much / adv. que se intercala entre los verbos y significa mucho (S) [(1)Cf.121r]. This is prefixed directly to the stem; all other prefixes precede it. See TEQUI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 232.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

element incorporated into verb stems to indicate intensification, large quantity
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 234.