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cochcahua.

Headword: 
cochcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to oversleep; to steal away from someone who is sleeping; to neglect to do something because one has been asleep (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cochcāhua, cochcaua
IPAspelling: 
kotʃkɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cochcaua. nite. (pret. onitecochcauh.) dexar durmiendo a otro e yrse.
cochcaua. nitla. dexar de hazer algo por se auer dormido.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COCHCĀHU(A) vrefl,vt to oversleep; to steal away from someone who is sleeping; to neglect to do something because one has been asleep / duerme demasiado (Z), dejar durmiendo a otro e irse (M), dejar de hacer algo por se haber dormido (M) [(2)Zp.47,169]. See COCH(I), CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.