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cochtlachiya.

Headword: 
cochtlachiya.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

themes: 
Dreams, Visions
See also: 
cochi.
tlachiya.
cochtlachializtli.