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-e.

Headword: 
-e.
Principal English Translation: 

vocative: to call attention, only men use this form

Attestations from sources in English: 

"Men add the suffix -é. The acute accent reflects the fact that contrary to regular practice this ending bears the word accent:"
Cihuātlé! = Woman!;
Pillé! = Child!;
Tēuctlé! = Lord!
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 81.

themes: 
Women, Men, Gender