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yeyehua.

Headword: 
yeyehua.
Principal English Translation: 

a good while ago (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yeyēhua
IPAspelling: 
yeyeːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YEYĒHUA a good while ago / buen rato há (C) [(1)Cf.126r]. This may be a reduplicated form of YĒHUA or the phrase YE YĒHUA ‘already a while ago.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 339.

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