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mayi.

Headword: 
mayi.
Principal English Translation: 

leavetaking phrase used in Tetelcingo (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mayī
IPAspelling: 
mɑyiː
Frances Karttunen: 

MAYĪ leavetaking phrase used in T se responde así cuando otro dice que ya se va (T) [(4)Tp. 140, 141]. This may be a further reduction of MĀCIUHQUI, which is used as a leave-taking phrase in some Nahuatl-speaking communities.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 142.