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tectoc.

Headword: 
tectoc.
Principal English Translation: 

to lie spread out in a body (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēctoc
IPAspelling: 
teːktok
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCTOC to lie spread out in a body / estancada (Z referring to water) [(6)Zp.7,38,75,144,219]. see TĒCA, the verb O
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 218.