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tequiyo.

Headword: 
tequiyo.
Principal English Translation: 

something invested with labor, something difficult (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tequiyoh
IPAspelling: 
tekiyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

TEQUIYOH something invested with labor, something difficult / cosa que tiene o da trabajo (M), trabajoso, difícil (T) [(1)Tp.226]. The final glottal stop is not attested due to the general loss of word-final glottal stop in T. T has E for I in the second syllable. See TEQUI-TL, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 233.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn atentlaltzintli canel tequiyo ca ypan tequitihua (Culhuacan, 1583)
James Lockhart collection, notes in a folder called "Land and Economy," citing the Testaments of Culhuacan, pp. 214–223. English translation here proposed by Stephanie Wood.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns