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-necehuiayan.

Headword: 
-necehuiayan.
Principal English Translation: 

one's resting place (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-necēhuiāyān
IPAspelling: 
-neseːwiɑːyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-NECĒHUIĀYĀN necessarily possessed form one's resting place / lugar para descansar o de descanso (M for neceuiloyan) [(1)Bf.Iv). M's form is derived from the nonactive form of CĒHUIĀ 'to rest,' while B's derivation is from the active form. See CĒHUIĀ, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.