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xo.

Headword: 
xo.
Principal English Translation: 

element with the sense ‘foot’ in many compounds (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃo
Frances Karttunen: 

*XO- element with the sense ‘foot’ in many compounds. This is an element of XOCPAL-LI ‘sole’ and XOPIL-LI ‘toe.' There are many XO- compounds in M.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents xo in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Anatomy
See also: 
xocpalli.
xopilli.