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  • curprev 12:1812:18, 25 April 2025 Magnus talk contribs 637 bytes +637 Created page with "PSUA ''*hikʷɨyawa'' "heart, breath, life force" is a stem, composed of two roots ''*hikʷɨ(s)'' probably meaning "breath" and the suffix ''*-yawa'', which seems to have been used to derive abstract nouns referring to something like an essence or the "property of being X", something like the suffix ''-ness'' in English, or indeed the cognate suffix ''-yo:tl'' in Colonial Nahuatl (Launey 19????). The literal meaning of PSUA ''*hikʷɨyawa'' thus see..."