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mantzoco.

Headword: 
mantzoco.
Principal English Translation: 

child unwilling to be separated from its mother (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māntzoco
IPAspelling: 
mɑːntsoko
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀNTZOCO child unwilling to be separated from its mother / niño que no quiere dejar a su mama (T) [(1)Tp. 165]. S has tzo-coton ‘something very small’. The first element may be from ĀN (A), used reflexively, ´to grow in bodily size.´ See TZOCO.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 136–137.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence