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-itcoca.

Headword: 
-itcoca.
Principal English Translation: 

that which someone carries, that for which someone is responsible (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-itcōca
IPAspelling: 
-itkoːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

-ITCŌCA necessarily possessed form that which someone carries, that for which someone is responsible / vasallos, gente menuda o súbditos (M for itconi) [(6)Bf.2v,4r,7r,12v,13r,13v]. B does not indicate the presence of the possessive prefix Ī- by vowel length marking, but this is conventionally paired with possessed forms of other deverbal constructions about carrying something or someone, hence governing and being responsible for someone. See (I)TQUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 107.