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Headword:

cochcamacoyahui.

Principal English Translation:

to yawn (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

cochcamacoyāhui

IPAspelling:

kotʃkɑmɑkoyɑːwi

Frances Karttunen:

COCHCAMACOYĀHU(I) to yawn / bosteza (T) [(3)Tp.115]. M has camacoyauac ‘person with a large mouth’. See COCH(I), CAM(A)-TL, COYĀHUAC.

COCHCAMACOYĀHUĪHUA nonact. COCHCAMACOYĀHU(I)

COCHCAMACOYĀHUĪTIĀ caus. COCHCAMACOYĀHU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.