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maye.

Headword: 
maye.
Principal English Translation: 

someone with hands (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māyeh
IPAspelling: 
mɑːyeh
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀYEH someone with hands / el que tiene manos (C) [(1)Cf. 55r, (2)Zp. 24, 166, (I) Rp.45]. The Y of this form may be the stem-final I of MĀ(I)-TL, or it may be an intrusive intervocalic glide between the stem and the possessor suffix. See MĀ(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 141–142.