metzcopina. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

metzcopina.

Principal English Translation:

to dislocate one’s hip (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

metzcopīna

IPAspelling:

metskopiːnɑ

Frances Karttunen:

METZCOPĪN(A) vrefl to dislocate one’s hip / se disloca (Z) [(2)Zp. 46, 171]. See METZ-TLI, COPĪN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.