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ixcuate.

Headword: 
ixcuate.
Principal English Translation: 

forehead (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxcuāte
IPAspelling: 
iːʃkwɑːte
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXCUĀTE-TETL pl: -MEH; possessed form: -TEUH forehead / a su frente, su rostro (T for possessed form) [(1)Tp.136, (3)Xp.102]. See ĪXCUĀ(I)-TL, TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 112.