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cotoctic.

Headword: 
cotoctic.
Principal English Translation: 

something that has a piece missing (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kotoktik
Alonso de Molina: 

cotoctic. cosa que le falta algo o algun pedazo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COTOCTIC something that lacks a fragment / cosa que le falta algo o algún pedazo (M) Z has the variant COTOLTIC. See COTŌN(A). COTOLTIC See COTOCTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 42.