to moderate, to calm down; no preterit from given (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
kɑkti
Frances Karttunen:
CACTI no preterit form given to moderate, to calm down / se va calmando (T) [(1)Tp.112]. This is the first element of the common verb CACTIMAN(I) ‘to be quiet, empty, deserted’ and M’s cactiuetzi ‘to fall quiet.’ The –TI –of the compound forms seems to be the -TI- ‘ligature’ that binds together verb stems, which makes the free form CACTI appear anomalous. Aside from this single attestation, the initial element does not occur independently. See CACTIMAN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.