is it zin or tzin??

[Frances Karttunen]

The suffix is -tzin.  But it's added to noun stems, not to nouns in
absolutive form.  So from tlalli one gets tlaltzin, not tlallitzin.

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>Subject: is it zin or tzin??
>Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2000, 7:59 PM
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> I was told that if you add "zin" after a word that this meant beloved... for
> example if I used the name of earth, Tlalli and added zin to make Tlallizin
> as beloved earth... is this correct?
>
> thank you
> jess
>