maco. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

maco.

Principal English Translation:

fist, grasp (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

māco

IPAspelling:

mɑːko

Frances Karttunen:

MĀCO fist, grasp / puño (Z) [(7)Zp.81, 103, 159, 160]. This only occurs in Z. By general rules, MĀ(I)-TL plus –C(O) yields MĀC. See MĀ(I)-TL, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 129.