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-monequiyan.

Headword: 
-monequiyan.
Principal English Translation: 

the proper time or place for something (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-monequiyān
IPAspelling: 
-monekiyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-MONEQUIYĀN necessarily possessed form the proper time or place for something / la sazón y tiempo (C) [(1)Cf.42v]. C also has the short form -MONECYĀN. See NEQU(I), -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 152.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency