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atocamecatl.

Headword: 
atocamecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person from Atocan (see Karttunen); the plural is atocameca (atocamecah); this can have an ethnic reading, given the relationship between identity and place

Orthographic Variants: 
ātocāmēcatl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːtokɑːmeːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTOCĀMĒCA-TL person from Atocan / morador de (de Atocan) (C)[(1)Cf.56v]. See ĀTOCĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 14.

themes: 
Names (for people, deities)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity