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[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

--- Frances Karttunen <karttu at NANTUCKET.NET> wrote:
> This begins to make sense.  A:huiyanimeh, 'courtesans, women of
> pleasure' ... and holding flowers. So we are not likely
> looking at the verb meaning to blossom, but rather to the possessor
> construction:
> xo:chi-yo:-huah 'one who possesses a bunch of flowers'

Or, did Aztec courtesans habitually carry flowers?