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-mochihuayan.

Headword: 
-mochihuayan.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency