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calcuaco.

Headword: 
calcuaco.
Principal English Translation: 

at the peak of the house (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
calcuāco
IPAspelling: 
kɑlkwɑːko
Frances Karttunen: 

CALCUĀCO at the peak of the house / encima de la casa, azotea, techo, tejado (Z) [(2)Zp.50,143]. The expected form would be CALCUĀC. See CAL-LI, CUA(I)-TL, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.