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zohuaehecatl.

Headword: 
zohuaehecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the weeping woman (a ghost) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zohuaehēcatl
IPAspelling: 
sowɑeheːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ZOHUAEHĒCA-TL the weeping woman (a ghost) / llorona, mal aire que se cambia en forma de mujer (T) [(1)Tp.223]. See ZOHUA-TL, EHĒCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 347.