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nacacicateca.

Headword: 
nacacicateca.
Principal English Translation: 

to sleep on one’s side; to lay something down on its side (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nacacicatēca
IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑsikɑteːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NACACICATĒCA vrefl,vt to sleep on one’s side; to lay something down on its side / duerme del lado (T), lo acuesta de lado (T) [(6)Tp.153,192]. See NACACIC, TĒCA.

NACACICATĒQUILIĀ applic. NACACICATĒCA

NACACICATĒCALO nonact. NACACICATĒCA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 155.