to soak maize in lime water (see Karttunen)
NEXQUETZ(A) to soak maize in lime water / pone el nixtamal, encala el maíz (T) [(3)Tp.167). See NEX-TLI, QUETZ(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.