Y

Letter Y: Displaying 421 - 440 of 1261
Orthographic Variants: 
ye inman

it is time now; now

Orthographic Variants: 
yeinicqualli, ye inic qualli

"oh, how good [something] is" (especially, admiring one self) (see Molina)

on time; the time is right, now is the time

it is finished, ready; that's the way it is; that's the way it happened (see Carochi and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ye ixquichcauitl

the whole time

that's all; that's enough; enough; Amen (see Molina and attestations)

five days until (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ye mictiuh ym metztli

the waning moon (literally, already dying) (see Molina)

convalescent (see Molina)

last year (see Molina)

a long time ago; sometime in the past

Orthographic Variants: 
ye nauhyupa

already four days
Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 189.

four days until (see Molina)

already here (an idiomatic expression)

Rebecca Horn's notes from classes in Nahuatl with James Lockhart. Some of her note cards are harvested here by Stephanie Wood.

to become in a state of misery and poverty (see Molina)

to convalesce during an illness (see Molina)

to end up in a state of misery and poverty (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yenocuel

right away, already again; and then again

to be close to death, or to be agonizing (see Molina)