⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

-que.

Headword: 
-que.
Principal English Translation: 

a plural ending for nouns that end in -e or -hua (see Siméon)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Los nombres terminados en e y ua hace el plural añadiendo que: mille, propietario de campo, milleque, propietarios de campo; cuique, maestro de canto, cuiqueque, maestros de canto; aua, dueño de agua, auaque, dueños de agua, etc. Pero ueue, viejo, e ilama, vieja, hacen ueuetque, ilamatque.
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xli.