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Citations:akoxa

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Undetermined citations of akoxa

"needle" in some variety of Nahuatl, from Spanish aguja

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compare Tetelcingo Nahuatl öcuxa, Mecayapan Nahuatl a̱co̱xaj
/aːkoːʃah/
  • 1972, Luz Jiménez, Fernando Horcasitas (ed. & tr.), Life and Death in Milpa Alta, pp. 42–43
    Noihqui tlacamo tzopiniaya ica acoxa ihuan itech iman ocalaquia ica in yolcatl in nacayo nozo icuitlaxehuayo.
    Furthermore, if someone got a needle stuck in his hand, the needle could be extracted with the meat or skin of this animal.

references (for different varieties, which however appear to use different spellings)

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  • Brewer, Forrest, Jean G. Brewer (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Telecingo, Morelos: castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 4, 170
  • Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎[1], 2nd electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 4, 213
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