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occan.

Headword: 
occan.
Principal English Translation: 

two; in two parts, in two places, or two portions of food; another place

IPAspelling: 
okkɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

occan. en dos partes, o en dos lugares, o dos raciones de comida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 74v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

OCCĀN in two places / en dos partes o en dos lugares, o dos raciones de comida (M) See OC, -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 175.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

particle. in two places. oc, -cān. 228
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), 228.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Numbers, Math