female companion, kinswoman; a necessarily possessed form (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
-cihuāpohtli
IPAspelling:
-siwɑːpohtɬi
Frances Karttunen:
-CIHUĀPOH-TLI necessarily possessed form female companion, kinswoman / usado en comp. nociuapo una mujer como yo, mi compañera, mí pariente; teciuapo la acompañante, la hermana, la pariente de alguien (S) [(1)Bf.4v]. S gives this with an absolutive suffix, but it is not so attested in the sources for this dictionary. See CIHUĀ-TL, -POH. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 34.