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cuayecachoa.

Headword: 
cuayecachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to nod one’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāyecachoā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːyekɑtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀYECACHOĀ vrefl to nod one’s head / cabecea (T) [(3)Tp.148]. Thes second element here may be derived from YAC(A)-TL ‘nose, ridge summit’ or may conceivably be a reduction of ĀYACACHOĀ ‘to play the rattle,’ namely, for one’s head to bob up and down like a rattle. See CUĀ(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 67.