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matepachoa.

Headword: 
matepachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to bruise one’s hand, to bruise someone’s hand (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mātepāchoā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːtepɑːtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀTEPĀCHOĀ vrefl, vt to bruise one’s hand, to bruise someone’s hand / se machuca la mano (T) [(6)Tp. 153, 192]. See MĀ(I)-TL, TEPĀCHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 138.

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