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xo.

Headword: 
xo.
Principal English Translation: 

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

IPAspelling: 
ʃoː
Frances Karttunen: 

*XŌ- element with the sense ‘green’ in many compounds; see XŌPAN, XŌTLA, etc. XOXOCTIC also contains a XO element and the sense ‘green’ but has a short rather than a long vowel.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.

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