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-quez.

Headword: 
-quez.
Principal English Translation: 

thigh, leg (only attested in possessed form and in compounds) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-quēz
IPAspelling: 
-keːs
Frances Karttunen: 

-QUĒZ only attested in possessed form and in compounds thigh, leg / su muslo, su pierna (T,Z) [(5)Tp.133,156,(1)Zp.160]. This seems to be related to QUEXĪL-LI 'groin' but differs in vowel length in the first syllable. See QUEXĪL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 210.

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