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-xiuhtia.

Headword: 
-xiuhtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to attain a certain age (must have a prefix to tell the number of years) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-xiuhtiā, -xiuhtiya
IPAspelling: 
-ʃiwtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

-XIUHTIĀ necessarily prefixed with a number, the whole acts as an intransitive verb to attain a certain age (number of years) / debía yo tener hasta diez años (C for first pers. sg. subject imperfect with the number ten prefixed to the verb) [(4)Cf.96r,104r,107v]. See XIHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 327.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Amo no tlanavatizque ynic ilpilozque telpopochtotontin yn quin ya matlacxiuhtiya on navi amo no ichpopochtotontin yn ayamo vel matlacxiuhtiya = Tampoco ordenarán que sean tomados prisioneros jóvenes que apenas tienen catorce años; tampoco a muchachas que aún no completan los diez años (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 260–261.

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