to see while sleeping (see attestations), or, to waken and go back to sleep repeatedly (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cochtlachia
IPAspelling:
kotʃtɬɑtʃiyɑ
Frances Karttunen:
COCHTLACHIY(A) pret: -CHIX ~ -CHĪX to waken and go back to sleep repeatedly / recuerda, se despierta y vuelve a dormir repetidas veces (T) [(3)Tp.116]. M has the noun cochtlachializtli ‘conception, vision between dreams.’ Although T only indicates that the preterit is formed with X, this undoubtedly undergoes the same potential vowel lengthening before the X as CHIY(A) does. The alternative preterits given here are based on CHIY(A). T only gives the final X. See COCH(I), TLACHIY(A).
COCHTLACHIYALŌ nonact. COCHTLACHIY(A)
COCHTLACHIYALTIĀ caus. COCHTLACHIY(A) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 37.