quiza

See also: quizá and Quiza

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• quiça

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːsa/

Verb

quīza (intransitive)

1. To come out; emerge. (With -tech.)
   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 30v:

     niquiça salgo: ōniquīz.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. To finish; end.
3. To pass by. (With -pan.)
4. To be celebrated. (Of a feast day.)

Derived terms

• quixtia
• tlalticpacquiza

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 249
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 126–127
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 213
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 231–232