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cochiznequi.

Headword: 
cochiznequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to be sleepy, to want to go to sleep (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kotʃisneki
Frances Karttunen: 

COCHIZNEQU(I) pret: -NEC to be sleepy, to want to go to sleep / tiene sueño (T) [(3)Tp.116,(2)Zp.118,145]. Z has the vowel of the second syllable long in both attestations, but it should be short. See COCH(I), NEQU(I).

COCHIZNEQUĪHUĀ nonact. COCHIZNEQU(I)

COCHIZNEQUĪTIĀ caus. COCHIZNEQU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 37.