Citations:akoxa

Undetermined citations of akoxa

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

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)

• 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