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ixcomaca.

Headword: 
ixcomaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to tell someone their faults to their face; or confess to have done something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
iːʃkomɑkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ixcomaca. nicte. (pret. onicteixcomacac.) dezir a alguno sus tachas, o faltas enla cara.
ixcomaca. nicn. (pret. onicnixcomacac.) confessar y conocer auer hecho algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 45r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXCOMACA verfl, vt to confess to having done something; to tell another person his faults to his face, to give evidence / confesar y conocer haber hecho algo (M), decir a alguno sus tachas o faltas en la cara (M) comprueba (Z) [(3)Tp.143, (2)Zp.31,199]. In M this appears as a double transitive verb, taking a direct and an indirect object prefix, while it is attested as simply reflexive in T and transitive in Z and has to do with clarification, verification, and proof. See –ĪXCO, MACA.

ĪXCOMACALŌ nonact. ĪXCOMACA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 112.