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tzoco.

Headword: 
tzoco.
Principal English Translation: 

something very small (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsoko
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOCO something very small / pequeño o pequeñuelo (M for tzocoton) [(1)Bf.6r, (3)Cf.125v, (1)Tp.165]. All attestations of this are with one or the other of the additional diminutives -TZIN, -TŌN. It may be related to XŌCOH, XŌCOYŌ-TL ‘youngest (smallest) child.’ It only appears in the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side of M.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.