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pepechiuhtoc.

Headword: 
pepechiuhtoc.
Principal English Translation: 

something affixed, permanent (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pepechiuhtoc
IPAspelling: 
pepetʃiwtok
Frances Karttunen: 

PEPECHIUHTOC something affixed, permanent / pegado, fijo (Z) [(3)Zp.60,95,182]. This implies intransitive *PEPECHIHU(I)'to stick, to become attached,’ although only the transitive PEPECHOĀ ‘to affix something’ is attested. See PEPECHOĀ, the verb O.

*PEPECHIHU(I) See PEPECHIUHTOC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191.