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quechtomahuac.

Headword: 
quechtomahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

someone with a swollen neck, a tumor of the neck (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quechtomāhuac
IPAspelling: 
ketʃtomɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHTOMĀHUAC someone with a swollen neck, a tumor of the neck / bocio (Z) [(2)Zp.20,184]. See QUECH-TLI, TOMĀHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 207.

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