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metzcuauhyo.

Headword: 
metzcuauhyo.
Principal English Translation: 

thigh, inner side of the leg (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
metzcuauhyoh
IPAspelling: 
metskwɑwyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

METZCUAUHYOH pl: -MEH thigh, inner side of the leg / el muslo o el largor de toda lo pierna (M) [(3)Xp.53]. See METZ-TLI, CUAHU(I)-TL, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 144.

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