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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.

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