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ecatoco.

Headword: 
ecatoco.
Principal English Translation: 

to be carried away by the wind

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

IPAspelling: 
ehkɑtoko
Alonso de Molina: 

ecatoco. n. (pret. onecatococ.) lleuarme por ay el viento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

n. verb in passive only. Class 1: ōnehcatacōc. root ehca- related to ehēcatl, toca.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.