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tzonica.

Headword: 
tzonica.
Principal English Translation: 

head down (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsonikɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONICA- head down / cabeza abajo (M from gloss for tzonicpilcac ‘to hang head down’) This element is abundantly attested in Z where the final vowel is marked long in two attestations. It appears in a number of constructions in M without the final vowel. See TZON-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 317.