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xaco.

Headword: 
xaco.
Principal English Translation: 

something dark, dusky (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xāco
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑːko
Frances Karttunen: 

XĀCO something dark, dusky / pardo (Z) [(2)Zp.94,227].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 321.