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nacaztequi.

Headword: 
nacaztequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut off someone's ears

IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑsteki
Attestations from sources in English: 

oquimacastec se tlacatl = he cut someone’s ears off
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 132–133.

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