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tzonmacauhtoc.

Headword: 
tzonmacauhtoc.
Principal English Translation: 

someone giddy, lightheaded (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzonmācāuhtoc
IPAspelling: 
tsonmɑːkɑːwtok
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONMĀCĀUHTOC someone giddy, lightheaded / suelto de la cabeza (Z) [(1)Zp.227]. In MĀCĀHU(A) Z has MAH for MĀ, but in the single attestation of this item, the vowel is not marked long or followed by a glottal stop either. See TZON-TLI, MĀCĀHU(A), the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 317.