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oquichpipiloc.

Headword: 
oquichpipiloc.
Principal English Translation: 

youth (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
oquichpīpiloc
IPAspelling: 
okitʃpiːpilok
Frances Karttunen: 

OQUICHPĪPILOC youth / juventud (Z) [(2)Zp.74,180]. Z idiosyncratically has PĪL where other sources have PIL. The long vowel of the reduplication is standard. The derivation is opaque,- perhaps it should be from PĪPIL, -YŌ, and -C(O). See OQUICHPIL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 180.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence