the proper time or place for something to come about, such as for fruit trees to bear fruit (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
-mochīhuayān
IPAspelling:
-motʃiːwɑyɑːn
Frances Karttunen:
-MOCHĪHUAYĀN necessarily possessed form proper time or place for something to come about, as for fruit trees to bear fruit / tiempo o lugar ... donde o cuando se da (C) [(1)Cf.50v, (1)Rp.43J. C also has the shorter form -MOCHĪUHYĀN with the same sense. See MOCHĪHU(A), -YĀN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 150.