atlacoxonia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

atlacoxonia.

Principal English Translation:

to beat water with one's hand (see Karttunen) for the sound it makes

Orthographic Variants:

ātlacoxōniā

IPAspelling:

ɑːtɬɑkoʃoːniɑː

Frances Karttunen:

ĀTLACOXŌNIĀ vrefl to beat water with one´s hand / hacer sonar el agua con la mano (T)[(3)Tp.165]. See Ā-TL, COXŌN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 13.

themes:

Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)

Water