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iitecca.

Headword: 
iitecca.
Principal English Translation: 

to be within or inside something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īihteccah
IPAspelling: 
iːihtekkɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪIHTECCAH to be within something / está adentro (T) [(1)Tp.130]. This is a fusion of the preterit–as-present verb CĀ with the postposition –IHTEC prefixed with the third person singular possessive prefix. T treats the sequence CC as though no morpheme boundary intervenes and probably shifts stress accordingly as in CUALLICAH ‘for something to be good.’ T also has ĪIHTICCAH ‘for something to be done correctly; to be empty, to be without work,’ apparently with the same derivational history. See -IHTEC, the verb CĀ.
ĪIHTICCAH See ĪIHTECCAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 103.