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-hueinan.

Headword: 
-hueinan.
Principal English Translation: 

grandmother (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-huēinān
IPAspelling: 
-weːinɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-HUĒINĀN only attested in possessed form grandmother / su abuelita (Z for possessed form) [(1)Zp.158]. Z also has several other permutations of NĀN-TLI and HUĒ(I) in possessed form with the same sense. This is peculiar to Z the common Nahuatl word for ‘grandmother’ is CIH-TLI. See HUĒ(I), NĀN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 86.

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