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nanahuacocotl.

Headword: 
nanahuacocotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a sore caused through sorcery (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nānāhuacocotl
IPAspelling: 
nɑːnɑːwɑkokotɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀNĀHUACOCO-TL sore caused through sorcery / llaga (de brujería) (Z) [(2)Zp.78,176]. Although this looks like a reduplicated form of NĀHUALCOCO-TL, which has the same gloss, there is no L in either attestation. If this is instead derivationally related to NĀNĀHUA-TL 'bubo, swollen gland/ then Z has confused two similar but distinct items. See NĀHUAL-LI, COCO-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 159.

themes: 
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
See also: 
cocotl.
nanahuatl.
nahualli.