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maco.

Headword: 
maco.
Principal English Translation: 

fist, grasp (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māco
IPAspelling: 
mɑːko
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀCO fist, grasp / puño (Z) [(7)Zp.81, 103, 159, 160]. This only occurs in Z. By general rules, MĀ(I)-TL plus –C(O) yields MĀC. See MĀ(I)-TL, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 129.