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-quihui.

Headword: 
-quihui.
Principal English Translation: 

will come to do (future tense of the -co suffix of purposive action in plural form)

Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Anquichīhuaquihuî = You'll (pl.) come to do it
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 227.

The singular is -quiuh.
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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