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-ihui.

Headword: 
-ihui.
Principal English Translation: 

intransitive form of an -oa, or transitive verb; makes a noun into a verb

Attestations from sources in English: 

-iuh in the past tense

chichiliui (chichilihui) = it becomes chili-red; comotziui (comotzihui) = it shakes; xoquiui (xoquihui) = it stinks; patziui (patzihui) = it shrinks; caxiui (caxihui) = it is depressed (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 97.