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tozcac.

Headword: 
tozcac.
Principal English Translation: 

the throat (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
toskɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

TOZCAC throat / su garganta (Z for possessed form) [(2)Zp.62,162]. M has totozcac ‘palate, pharynx’. See TOZQUI-TL, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Texillan tetozcatlan oquiz. Inin tlatolli itechpa mitoaya in aquin itech oquiz tlatocamecayotl = From someone's entrails, from someone's throat, he came forth. This was said about the person who comes from nobilty. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 148–149.

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