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yacatzacua.

Headword: 
yacatzacua.
Principal English Translation: 

for one’s nose to get obstructed; to obstruct someone’s nose
(see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
yɑkɑtsɑkwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YACATZACU(A) vrefl,vt for one’s nose to get obstructed; to obstruct someone’s nose / se le tapan las narices (T), le tapa la nariz (T) [(6)Tp.163,218]. See YAC(A)-TL, TZACU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 333–334.