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[Frances Karttunen]

>It's quiet, too quiet for some, so what is this yuhquimma I see in Juan
>Bautista's Huehuetlahtolli?  Sounds a bit like what we call Yupper speak, as
>in instead of Sorry, ma forgot to take out the trash, it's yohkey ma, I'll
>take out the trash.  Inquiring, scholarly minds want to. . .  Mark


Yuhqui is a common orthograohic variant of the word that appears elsewhere
as iuhqui and means 'thus, so'.  The longer form yuhquimma/iuhquimma means
'more or less.'  It's to be found in Molina's dictionary with the iuh
spelling.

The "yuh" represents phonetic [iw], not [yu].