ia.

Headword: 
ia.
Principal English Translation: 

to exist (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
IPAspelling: 
iɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

*IĀ preterit-as-present verb; pret: IH to exist / ser (K) This is a hypothetical element included in ĀQUIHQUEH ‘who are they?’, the plural of ĀC, and of IN IHQUEH ĪN (or ŌN) ‘these (or those) present.’ See INIHQUEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 92.