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.

cocotzin.

Headword: 
cocotzin.
Principal English Translation: 

child (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kokotsin
Frances Karttunen: 

COCOTZIN child / sirvienta (S) This appears once in a string of epithets all of which are glossed as ‘hija mía’ and once unglossed in a command. S has COCO glossed as 'sirvienta' and with the possessed form -COCOUH. See XŌCOYŌ-TL, XŌCOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 39.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
See also: 
xocoyo.
Xoco.
cocotl.