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makes a verb of a noun, i.e. to be or become that thing; having that quality

optative ending of outbound purposive motion form -tīuh/-to.

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.

causative; to make this happen (used mainly w/ intransitive verbs); to provide or make that thing; went away doing

Orthographic Variants: 
-tiya

variant of -ti, to be or become

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.

Orthographic Variants: 
-tiya

preterite of yauh (to go) as an auxiliary

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.

went doing; went

will go to do (attaches to a verb; includes -ti- = ligature , and az = future of yauh)
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl classes with James Lockhart. Card file being harvested by Stephanie Wood.

the ending of many adjective-like substantives
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.

by or through (that thing); also, a progressive tense indicator (to be doing, an aux. to a verb); added to days, it is the # of days; "things cost that much" if added to a number, e.g., worth 4 reales

Orthographic Variants: 
-ticateh

present plural progressive

above; over; on top of; at the top of; above the head of. This is a suffix that combines the ligature -ti- with -icpac. It is often found on place names.

-tiːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
-tīhui, -tivi

to go away doing; a centrifugal purposive verbal compounding element; singular (see Karttunen)

plural caustiive

a place where (preceding element) happens, a locative suffix plus the ligature -ti-; see also -loyan, and -yan.

to be a certain way (preceded by the key modifier)

a plural ending added to nouns, when the noun has a consonant stem (see Lockhart)

to go about doing

next to, in, between, below, with, in the company of; a locative suffix

Orthographic Variants: 
-tihui, -iuh

present of the purposive motion form away from the speaker, tīuh/-to.

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.