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-tzineuhca.

Headword: 
-tzineuhca.
Principal English Translation: 

the beginning of something (see Karttunen), a necessarily possessed form

Orthographic Variants: 
-tzīnēuhca
IPAspelling: 
-tsiːneːwkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

-TZĪNĒUHCA necessarily possessed form the beginning of something / principio (Z) [(1)Zp.162]. See TZĪNĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 313.