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tequitiltia.

Headword: 
tequitiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to put someone, something to work, to use something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tequitiltiā
IPAspelling: 
tekitiltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TEQUITILTIĀ vt to put someone, something to work, to use something / le hace trabajar, lo ocupa, lo usa (T) [(3)Tp.204]. By general rule the vowel of the third syllable should be short, but it is attested long in T. caus. TEQUITI

TEQUITILTILIĀ applic. TEQUITILTIĀ.

TEQUITILTĪLŌ nonact. TEQUITILTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 233.