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cochtoc.

Headword: 
cochtoc.
Principal English Translation: 

someone asleep, someone lying sleeping (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kotʃtok
Alonso de Molina: 

cochtoc. ni. (pret. onicochtoca. vel. onicochtoya.) estar tendido durmiendo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COCHTOC someone asleep, someone lying sleeping / estar tendido durmiendo (M), /K037/ está durmiendo (C) [(2)Cf.72v,98v,(2)Zp.47,146]. C has a reduplicated plural form of this which may be distributive. See COCH(I), the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 38.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents cochtoc in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).