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tocotzoa.

Headword: 
tocotzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to humble oneself, to make oneself smaller; to shrink or shorten something, to take something in (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocotzoā
IPAspelling: 
tokotsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TOCOTZOĀ vrefl.vt to humble oneself, to make oneself smaller; to shrink or shorten something, to take something in / se encoge (Z), lo encoge (Z) [(4).50,174,198]. This is related by metathesis to synonymous COTOTZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 242–243.