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cochitta.

Headword: 
cochitta.
Principal English Translation: 

to see something in dreams (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kotʃittɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cochitta. nitla. (pret. onitlacochittac.) ver alguna cosa entre sueños.
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: 

COCHITTA vt to dream about something / ver alguna cosa entre sueños (M). See COCH(I), (I)TTA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 37.

themes: 
Dreams, Visions