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malcochoa.

Headword: 
malcochoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to embrace something with one's arms (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑlkotʃoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

malcochoa. nitla. (pret. onitlamalcocho.) abarcar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

abarcar entre los brazos. nitla. malcochoa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1r.

Frances Karttunen: 

MALCOCHOĀ vt to embrace something, to carry something in one’s arms / abarcar algo (M), lo lleva en los brazos, lo coge en las manos (T) [(3) Tp. 189].

MALCOCHILHUIĀ applic. MALCOCHOĀ .

MALCOCHŌLŌ nonact. MALCOCHOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 134.