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ichtacanonotza.

Headword: 
ichtacanonotza.
Principal English Translation: 

to whisper, to converse in secret; to speak to someone in secret (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ichtacanōnōtza
IPAspelling: 
itʃtɑkɑnoːnoːtsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ICHTACANŌNŌTZ(A) vrefl,vt to whisper, to converse in secret; to speak to someone in secret / cuchichea, platica en secreto (T) [(6)Tp.149,185]. See ICHTACA, NŌNŌTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 93.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition