Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

chochoc.

Headword: 
chochoc.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of bird (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chohchoc
IPAspelling: 
tʃohtʃok
Frances Karttunen: 

CHOHCHOC a type of bird / pájaro arriero (Z) [(2)Zp.93,152]. The literal sense of the Spanish gloss is ‘muleteer bird.’ Since neither attestation marks the vowel of the second syllable long, there does not seem to be a connection with CHŌCA ‘to cry.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 54.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
chochotl.