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ma ihui.

Headword: 
ma ihui.
Principal English Translation: 

may it be so

Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 132.

See also ma iuh.

Orthographic Variants: 
ma iui, ma yui, mayui
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mayui = Así sea. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 133.