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quechcotonqui.

Headword: 
quechcotonqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone without a head, decapitated (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechcotōnqui
IPAspelling: 
ketʃkotoːnki
Alonso de Molina: 

quechcotonqui. degollado, o descabezado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHCOTŌNQUI someone without a head, decapitated / degollado, o descabezado (M), un muerto sin cabeza (Z) [(1)Zp.184]. See QUECHCOTŌN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 206.

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