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quechcuauhyo.

Headword: 
quechcuauhyo.
Principal English Translation: 

the throat, neck, nape of the neck, neck of an animal (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechcuauhyō
IPAspelling: 
ketʃkwɑwyoː
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHCUAUHYŌ pl: -MEH the throat, neck, nape of the neck, neck of an animal / su cuello, su pescuezo, su nuca (T), su pescuezo (de animal) (Z) [(1)Tp.133,(2)Zp.97,160,(3)Xp.66]. No attestation indicates a final glottal stop, indicating -YOH rather than -YŌ, but this does not take an absolutive suffix, and since vowels shorten word-finally, the length of the final vowel is ambiguous. See QUECH-TLI, CUAHU(I)-TL, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 206.

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