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oc tachcauh.

Headword: 
oc tachcauh.
Principal English Translation: 

more... (a comparative; in both negative and positive comparisons)

Horacio Carochi / English: 

oc tāchcāuh = means the same as oc huālcâ and oc tlapanahuia, because tāchcāuh means something more important, first, in good things as well as bad, as when one calls another a drunk, and he answers, Oc tāchcāuh inic titlahuanqui, You are a greater drunk.
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 323.