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quetzoma.

Headword: 
quetzoma.
Principal English Translation: 

to bite something, someone (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quehtzoma
IPAspelling: 
kehtsomɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

QUEHTZOM(A) to bite something, someone / adentallar, morder a otro, o dar bocados (M) [(4)Tp.200,235,(2)Zp.86,193]. T has lost the internal glottal stop. This may be related to (I)HTZOM(A) 'to sew, stitch something.'

QUETZOM(A) See QUEHTZOM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 208.