a relic, the remainder of someone or something (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
-necāuhcā
IPAspelling:
-nekɑːwkɑː
Frances Karttunen:
-NECĀUHCĀ necessarily possessed form relic, remainder of someone, something / reliquia (C) [(1)Bf.8r,(2)Cf.49r]. M has unpossessed necauhcayoll with the same sense. See CĀHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.