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-mayo.

Headword: 
-mayo.
Principal English Translation: 

a tree’s crown, its branches and foliage (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-māyō
IPAspelling: 
-mɑːyoː
Frances Karttunen: 

-MĀYŌ inalienably possessed form of MĀ(I)-TL a tree’s crown, its branches and foliage / su rama (Z) [(1) Tp. 131, (4)Zp. 52, 105, 159, 193]. T has this in reduplicated form –MĀMĀYŌ. M has imamainquauitl ‘branches of a tree,’ which represents the phrase ĪMĀMĀ IN CUAHUITL, literally ‘its-branches the tree,’ where the suffix –YŌ indicating inalienable possession is not used. See MĀ(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 142.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora