a word element that means "young" (e.g. found in ichpochtli and telpochtli) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
-pōch
IPAspelling:
-poːtʃ
Frances Karttunen:
-PŌCH This element of (I)CHPŌCH-TLI 'young woman' and TĒLPŌCH-TLI 'young man' forms its plural by reduplication, -PŌPŌCHTIN, implying that (I)CH and TĒL are modifiers, but these elements do not appear independently in other constructions. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 199.