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pechoa.

Headword: 
pechoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to squat, crouch, bend over; to lower something, to bend something down (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pēchoā
IPAspelling: 
peːtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PĒCHOĀ vrefl,vt to squat, crouch, bend over; to lower something, to bend something down / se encorva, se agacha (T), lo agacha, lo encorva (T) [(6)Tp.155,197]. Only T has PĒCHOĀ as an independent verb, and in T the first syllable contains the reflex of a long vowel. The other sources have items involving prostrating oneself with PECH as an element, and the vowel is consistently short.

PĒCHILHUIĀ applic. PĒCHOĀ.

PĒCHŌLŌ nonact. PĒCHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 190.