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cecem.

Headword: 
cecem.
Principal English Translation: 

one apiece, one for each (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cēcem
IPAspelling: 
seːsem
Frances Karttunen: 

CĒCEM one apiece, one for each / cada uno sendos, o a cada uno sendos, o cada uno de ellos (M) CEHCEM with glottal stop reduplication also occurs, and both CĒCEM and CEHCEM are attested with expressions of time and period. The final nasal consonant delabializes word-finally, CĒCEN. redup. CEM

CĒCEN See CĒCEM.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 27.