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-potli.

Headword: 
-potli.
Principal English Translation: 

a suffix that indicates possession, similarity (see Siméon)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Potli indica posesión, igualdad, semejanza: pilpotli, primera mujer o hijo como [tal]; maceualpotli, vasallo, sujeto como [tall].
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xxxix.