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hueya.

Headword: 
hueya.
Principal English Translation: 

to grow (see Molina), to increase

IPAspelling: 
wejɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

Veixtiuh. yr creciendo. Prete. oniueixtia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 156r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

veia = it grows larger (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 109.

preterite stem change = huex
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.