⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

cochi.

Headword: 
cochi.
Principal English Translation: 

to sleep (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

IPAspelling: 
kotʃi
Alonso de Molina: 

cochi. ni. (pret. onicoch.) dormir.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COCH(I) to sleep / dormir (M) COCHĪHUA nonact. COCH(I). COCHILTIĀ altern. caus. COCH(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ni. to sleep. Class 2: ōnicoch.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

iuhquin necochaano inic ommomiquili = He died as if he were stretching out when going to sleep
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 222.

Ayac çiuapan cochia = no one slept with the woman
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 64.

ça metlatitlan ȳ mocohcochitihnemi = She (Chalchuihnenetzin) lived dozing by the grinding stones
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 42–43.

ompa omocochiti = there she slept
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 148–149.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

centetl tlapechtli çan cualton niquicepanmacatiuh oncan cocochizque = una barbacoa de madera pequeña les doy a las dos para en que duerman (San Juan Teotihuacan, 1563)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 146–147.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cochi.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to sleep.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
ni. Macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli quitzacua iixtiyol pan ce yohualli. “Quemman oncah ce tlaixpiyalli Sabani axniman cochi. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
A. Una persona, animal y vacas cierran su ojo de noche. “Cuando hay un baile Sandra no se duerme temprano”. B. Dormir.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.
Audio for Headword: 

cochi

tlahtolli: 
cochi
audio_file_wav: 
audio_file_mp3: 
data_set_date: 
41074