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ai.

Headword: 
ai.
Principal English Translation: 

to do (see Carochi)

Orthographic Variants: 
ay
Horacio Carochi / English: 

āi = to do
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 497.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tle īc nonāiz = what good will it do me; tle ōtāz = what's the matter with you
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 414–15 with n2, 426–27, 444–45, 456–57, 497.

ay = to do, to make
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 149.