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itztoc.

Headword: 
itztoc.
Principal English Translation: 

something visible (see Karttunen)

or, to watch, to keep awake, to wait for
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 156.

IPAspelling: 
itstok
Frances Karttunen: 

ITZTOC something visible / visible (Z), lo observa (Z) [(4)Zp.90,130,174,199,(r)Rp.83]. In Z this appears with reflexive and object prefixes, while in R it appears as an intransitive verb glossed as ‘to be sleepless.’ See (I)TZ-, the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 109.

Attestations from sources in English: 

hualitztoc = they came to await
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 9, f. 21v, Anderson & Dibble translation, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/9/folio/21v

IDIEZ morfema: 
itztoc.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
See ITTA1.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Xiquitta ITTA1.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach. axahci.
Audio for Headword: 

itztoc

tlahtolli: 
itztoc
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audio_file_mp3: 
data_set_date: 
41074
Audio for Examples in Context: 

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tlahtolli: 
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audio_file_wav: 
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audio_acquiya_quichiuhqui: 
Sabina
speaker: 
Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl speaker, spring 2012
audio_transcription: 
Ezteh... nouhquiya itztoqueh cequinoqueh totiotzitzin.
audio_translation_SPN: 
También hay otros dioses.