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tzontecompanoa.

Headword: 
tzontecompanoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to carry something on one’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzontecompanoā
IPAspelling: 
tsontekompɑnoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONTECOMPANOĀ vt to carry something on one’s head / lo lleva en la cabeza (T) [(3)Tp.214] T has lost the final M of the first element. The expected form of the second element would be PANŌLTĪA from the verb PANŌ, which T has elsewhere. See TZONTECOM(A)-TL, PANŌ.

TZONTECOMPANILHUIĀ applic. TZONTECOMPANOĀ.

TZONTECOMPANŌLŌ nonact. TZONTECOMPANOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 318.