to bend, to double over; to bend something so that it cannot be straightened (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tohpochoā
IPAspelling:
tohpotʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
TOHPOCHOĀ vrefl.vt to bend, to double over; to bend something so that it cannot be straightened / se encoge, se agacha (forzosamente) (T), lo encorva y no se puede enderezarse (T) [(6)Tp.171,212].
TOHPOCHILHUIĀ applic. TOHPOCHOĀ.
TOHPOCHŌLŌ nonact. TOHPOCHOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.