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miccacoyoctli.

Headword: 
miccacoyoctli.
Principal English Translation: 

grave, tomb (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
miccācoyoctli
IPAspelling: 
mikkɑːkoyoktɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

MICCĀCOYOC-TLI pl: -MEH grave / sepulcro, tumba (T) [(2)Tp. 142, (3)Zp. 115, 126, 167]. Z also has a variant in which the second vowel is idiosyncratically raised to Ē . See MICCĀ-, COYOC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 145.

themes: 
Death and Dying