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momaca.

Headword: 
momaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to come to blows (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
momɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MOMACA to come to blows / se pega, se pelea (T) [(3)Tp.150]. This is a lexicalized use of the reflexive of MACA ‘to give.’ See MACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.