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.