hand sword of wood edged with obsidian (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
māccuauhuitl
IPAspelling:
mɑːkkɑuɑwitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
MĀCCUAuHU(I)-TL hand sword of wood edged with obsidian / macana, especie de espada de madera guarnecida por ambos lados de cuchillos de obsidiana (S) [(1)Bf. 10R]. The single attestation has locative MĀC ´in the hand´ as the initial element, although S assumes it is MĀ ‘hand.’ See MĀ(I)-TL, -C(O), CUAHU(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 127.