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quechcochtitlan.

Headword: 
quechcochtitlan.
Principal English Translation: 

nape of the neck (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ketʃkotʃtitɬɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHCOCHTITLAN pl: -MEH nape of the neck / nuca (X) [(2)Zp.89,160,(3)Xp.66]. T has possessed -QUECHTLAN, which may be a truncation of QUECHCOCHTITLAN. M has the shorter form with an absolutive suffix, quech-tlantli. See QUECHTLAN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 206.

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