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.