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-metzacayo.

Headword: 
-metzacayo.
Principal English Translation: 

necessarily possessed form one’s shin bone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-metzācayō
IPAspelling: 
-metsɑːkɑyoː
Frances Karttunen: 

-METZĀCAYŌ necessaryli possessed form one’s shin bone / su tibia, su canilla, su espinilla (Z) [(4)Zp. 25, 56, 122, 159]. See METZ-TLI, ĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.

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