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possessive ending

Orthographic Variants: 
ucuiltamali

worm tamales

[Source: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Prímeros Memoríales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 203.

singular possessive suffix used with roots ending in a vowel.

two (see also our entry: ome)

two people (see also omentin) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
unxiuitl, onxihuitl, ome xihuitl

two years (see Molina)

a Spanish surname

used
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
uztoa, uztoua, uztuua

a fox or a vixen (see Molina)