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yeco.

Headword: 
yeco.
Principal English Translation: 

for a river to rise (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yecō
IPAspelling: 
yekoː
Frances Karttunen: 

YECŌ for a river to rise / crece el rio (T) [(1)Tp.248]. The long final vowel is not attested and is hypothesized here on the pattern of other verbs such as TEMŌ ‘to descend.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.