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cocotlan.

Headword: 
cocotlan.
Principal English Translation: 

neck, throat (see Karttunen); see also cocotli

Orthographic Variants: 
cōcohtlan
IPAspelling: 
koːkohtɬɑn
Alonso de Molina: 

cocotli. garguero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CŌCOHTLAN neck, throat / su garganta, su cuello (T for possessed form) [(1)Tp.128]. T consistently has the reflex of CŌCŌ for CŌCOH. X has the variant form CŌCOHTITLAN, of which this may be a shortened form. See CŌCOH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 38.