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-cihuapotli.

Headword: 
-cihuapotli.
Principal English Translation: 

female companion, kinswoman; a necessarily possessed form (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-cihuāpohtli
IPAspelling: 
-siwɑːpohtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

-CIHUĀPOH-TLI necessarily possessed form female companion, kinswoman / usado en comp. nociuapo una mujer como yo, mi compañera, mí pariente; teciuapo la acompañante, la hermana, la pariente de alguien (S) [(1)Bf.4v]. S gives this with an absolutive suffix, but it is not so attested in the sources for this dictionary. See CIHUĀ-TL, -POH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 34.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent
Women, Men, Gender