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cemeh.

Headword: 
cemeh.
Principal English Translation: 

plural of ce (one), one of several (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cēmeh
Frances Karttunen: 

CĒ pl: CĒMEH one / uno o una (M) The related bound form –CĒL has a long vowel, but CEM has a short one. The plural CĒMEH has the sense ‘one of several.’ As an example, C Gives cēmé tèhuāntin ‘one of us,’ cēmé azcihuà ‘one of you women’ (Cf.85v). See CEM, -CĒL. CEHCĒ redup. CĒ CĒMEH. See CĒ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 26.