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a curer of hides, a softener of something

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

the love with which one is loved (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

close to, next to, near, adjacent to (a post-positional word) (see Carochi/Lockhart and Karttunen)

went to do (past of the outward moving purposive motion suffix -tīuh/-to); or simply read as past tense

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

to be lying down, spread out, possibly sleeping

place named...

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

one's burial

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

smallness (a compounding element that must be bound to another element; see Karttunen); this is the singular ending; the plural would be -totontin (see Carochi; see also our entry for -ton.)

diminutive, often in a derogatory sense