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totoquitia.

Headword: 
totoquitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make someone run, to rush someone; or, to cause an illness to worsen (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
totōquītiā
IPAspelling: 
totoːkiːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TOTŌQUĪTIĀ altern. caus. TOTŌCA.

TOTŌCA to run, to hurry, for illness to worsen / ir de priesa o correr, empeorar o crecer la enfermedad (M). Despite the apparent affinity of meaning, this is not derived by reduplication from TOCA ‘to pursue someone’, since they differ in transitivity and in vowel length. C contrasts this with TŌTOCA ‘to run after something’, which is genuine reduplicated derivation from TOCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.