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arcotic.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
arcotic.
Principal English Translation: 

curved, arched

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nelyehyectzin arcohtic mocauhqui ne ohtlatl pampa nocca celic huan cualli mocauhqui pan tlaixpamitl (Sullivan et al. 2016: 29). The bamboo pole ended up beautifully curved/arched because it was still green (tender) and it went well on the altar. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 85-86.

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