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tlacuaatequia.

Headword: 
tlacuaatequia.
Principal English Translation: 

to perform baptism (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuāātēquiā, tlaquaatequia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑːɑːteːkiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUĀĀTĒQUIĀ to perform baptism / bautiza (T)[(6)Tp.229]. It is unusual that the nonspecific nonhuman object prefix TLA- is involved here rather tan its human object counterpart TĒ-. Because of the specialized, non-literal sense, it appears that TLA- is fused with the stem in this item. The sequence ĀĀ is generally written with a single letter, as it is in T. See CUĀĀTĒQUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 256.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)