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-celica.

Headword: 
-celica.
Principal English Translation: 

the freshness of something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-celicā
IPAspelling: 
-selikɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

-CELICĀ possessed form of CELICĀYŌ-TL the freshness of something / frescura y verdor (C) [(1)Bf.5r,(2)Cf.49r,82v] . M has celica as a free form with the sense ‘freshly.’ The final vowel is shortened word- finally but appears long in CELICĀYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 29.