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-oquichtiuh.

Headword: 
-oquichtiuh.
Principal English Translation: 

older brother (from the point of view of a sister) (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-oquichtiuh
IPAspelling: 
-okitʃtiw
Frances Karttunen: 

-OQUICHTIUH necessarily possessed form, older brother (from the point of view of a sister) / la hermana dice de su hermano mayor (C) [(2)Cf.81V]. See OQUICH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 180.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent
Women, Men, Gender