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atlacohua.

Headword: 
atlacohua.
Principal English Translation: 

ravine, canyon
Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua náhuatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1987), 40. Stephanie Wood's translation of this term from the Spanish translations for atlacohua given by Sullivan.

Orthographic Variants: 
atlacoua
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"...'barranca, quebrada, cañada'. De atl, 'agua,' acoa, el impersonal de aquí, 'meterse, penetrar'"; sustantivo verbal
Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua náhuatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1987), 40.

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