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quechtecoyahua.

Headword: 
quechtecoyahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a hole in something (a huipil or quechquemitl) in order to pull it on over the head (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechtecoyāhua
IPAspelling: 
ketʃtekoyɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHTECOYĀHU(A) vt to make a hole in something (a huipil or quechquemitl) in order to pull it on over the head / lo agujera para ponérselo por la cabeza (T) [(3)Tp.200]. See QUECH-TLI, COYĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 207.