Principal English Translation:
something long
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 218.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
a pret. agentive form probably derived from huēi(y)a to grow large. vowel quantity not well attested; originally long e probably neutralized before the glide, since it was being weakened to i. The a was possibly long. 218
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