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Letter Y: Displaying 781 - 800 of 1264

yeyehua.

yeyeːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yeyēhua

a good while ago (see Karttunen)

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yeyeilhuitica.

yehyeːilwitikɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yehyēilhuitica

every three days (see Karttunen)

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yeyeltia.

to flee or avoid something many times (see Molina)

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yeyohti.

for a woman and her husband to go live with his parents.
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yeyohticāpohtli.

wife of a woman’s brother-in-law.
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yeyohtli.

s.o.’s daughter-in-law.
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yeyohual.

Orthographic Variants: 
yeyoal

three nights (see Molina) = yei (3) + yohualli (nights)

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yeyohuaquia.

Orthographic Variants: 
yeyuuaquia, yeyouaquia

to become dusk, or to grow dark (see Molina)

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yez.

will be (future of cah)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 242.

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yezo, ytlapallo, yoxio.

heir to an entailed estate (metaphor) (see Molina)

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yezotla.

yesoːtɬɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yezōtla

to vomit something (see Karttunen)

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yezotlalli.

yesoːtɬɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
yezōtlalli

vomit (see Karttunen)

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yezqui.

will be (archaic future)

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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yezquia.

jeskiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yesquia

was to be

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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yhuinin.

Orthographic Variants: 
yhui yn, yuhinin

like this

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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yiapaltic.

Orthographic Variants: 
yapaltic, yiapalli, yiappalli, jiappalli

a color -- brown, black, flesh colored, or perhaps green-brown

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 43, note 7.

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yiataztli.

incense bag(s)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 82.

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yitzqui.

active

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 3.

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yllo.

return, go back

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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ymani.

at this time

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

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