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Ignoring the macron, we would then read something like lutz, kutz or butz. A lot depends on how we treat the macron though:

• we could pretend it's not there, in which case we'd need to read "?utz"
  
• we could read it as a standard "omission of n" macron -> but where does the "n" go then? 
  
• we could read it as a more general abbreviation line, which presumes the reader's familiarity with the commonly abbreviated word
  

Maybe the second option is most likely. But we could get a lot of words from this, depending on where we want the omitted "n" to go:
luntz, kuntz, buntz, lut-n-z, kut-n-z, but-n-z, kutzen, butzen, lutzen...

Well, on my view, ignoring of the macron is not good idea. I agree that the end of the word is rather just "z". Is it possible that the whole word is "Luchz" as another spelling of the word "Luchs"? Is it possible the macron to stand for a missing "h"?
I understand that we are inclined to the most classical/frequent versions, but as I understand these classical versions don't have much sense in translation / interpretation. Doesn't it?