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quechpiloa.

Headword: 
quechpiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to hang someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechpiloā
IPAspelling: 
ketʃpiloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHPILOĀ vt to hang someone / colgar a alquien por el cuello (S) [(2)Rp.48,49). See QUECH-TLI, PILOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 207.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
War, Conflict