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mapoch.

Headword: 
mapoch.
Principal English Translation: 

the left hand (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māpōch
IPAspelling: 
mɑːpoːtʃ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀPŌCH pl: -TIN left hand / mano izquierda (Z) [(4)Xp. 52,62]. See MĀ(I)-TL, ŌPŌCH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.

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