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tzontecome.

Headword: 
tzontecome.
Principal English Translation: 

one who has a head (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsontekomeh
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONTECOMEH one who has a head / el que tiene cabeza (K) [(1)Cf.55v, (1)Rp.45]. For both C and R this is just one unglossed example in a list illustrating the possesor construction. R has N for M. See TZONTECOM(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 318.