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-cihuayo.

Headword: 
-cihuayo.
Principal English Translation: 

female genital secretions (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-cihuāyō
IPAspelling: 
-siwɑːyoː
Frances Karttunen: 

-CIHUĀYŌ female genital secretions / secreción de los órganos sexuales de la mujer (S for cihuaayotl) [(1)Cf.83r]. S gives this with a double vowel medially and an absolutive suffix and analyzes it as a compound of CIHUĀ-TL and ĀYŌ-TL. But C has this in a section with -OQUICHYŌ, ‘semen,’ both apparently inalienably possessed forms of the corresponding nouns, although it is not impossible that –YOH is intended. M also has cihuayotl ‘vulva.’ See CIHUĀ-TL, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 35.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cihuāyō.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
uterus.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
no. Ce achi itlacayo cihuatl tlen iihtico campa tlaconetia. “Enedina temoc icihuayo pampa huetzqui. ”
IDIEZ morfología: 
cihuātl, yō.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlat.
themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction
Women, Men, Gender
See also: 
cihuayo.
cihuayotl.