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-mochiuhyan.

Headword: 
-mochiuhyan.
Principal English Translation: 

the proper time for something to come about (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-mochīuhyān
IPAspelling: 
-motʃiːwyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-MOCHĪUHYĀN necessarily possessed form the proper time for something to come about / es tiempo de (C) ((2)Cf.51r, (1)Rp.42]. See -MOCHĪHUAYĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 150.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency