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quechmalina.

Headword: 
quechmalina.
Principal English Translation: 

to wring the neck (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechmalīna
IPAspelling: 
ketʃmɑliːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHMALĪN(A) vt to wring the neck / le tuerce el cuello (de gallina, etc.) (T) [(3)Tp.200]. See QUECH-TLI, MALĪN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 206.

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