as high as a person can reach, used to name a particular measure of length
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 227.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
complex relational word acting as a noun. patientive noun from reflexive quetza, -pan. 227