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cocochtica.

Headword: 
cocochtica.
Principal English Translation: 

to be dozing (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cōcochticah
IPAspelling: 
koːkotʃtikɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

cocochtica. ni. (pret. onicocochticatca.) dormitar, o cabecear de sueño.
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: 

CŌCOCHTICAH to be dozing / dormitar, o cabecear de sueño (M) [(2)Cf.72v]. See COCH(I), the verb CĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 38.