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cochtlamelahua.

Headword: 
cochtlamelahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to go right to sleep (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cochtlamelāhua
IPAspelling: 
kotʃtɬɑmelɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

COCHTLAMELĀHU(A) to go right to sleep / dormir a sueño suelto (C) [(1)Cf.98v]. T has TLACOCHMELĀHU(A) ‘to be sleeping soundly.’ See COCH(I), MELĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 37.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

to fall asleep right away
Class 2. ōnicochtlamelāuh. cochi, tlamelāhua.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.