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tecoyahua.

Headword: 
tecoyahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to perforate something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecoyāhua
IPAspelling: 
tekoyɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TECOYĀHU(A) vt to perforate something / lo agujera (T) [(3)Tp.203]. See COYĀHU(A).

TECOYĀHUILIĀ applic. TECOYĀHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 217.