Y

Letter Y: Displaying 821 - 840 of 1263
Orthographic Variants: 
yuuac niquiza

to rise early (see Molina)

yowɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
youac, yoac, yuuac, yuhuac

at night, pertaining to the night; or very early in the morning
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.

Orthographic Variants: 
Yoval

a person's name (gender not made clear)

Orthographic Variants: 
youalauachotia, youalahuachotia, yohualauachotia

to pacify or calm something (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
youalahuachtli

the night dew (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
youalauechtli, yohualauechtli

the night dew (see Molina)

jowɑlseseliɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
youalcecelia

to pacify or calm something (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
iooalquauhtli, iohualcuauhtli, iohualquauhtli

perhaps the Northern Potoo, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
yuuallacaqui

to listen at night (see Molina), or to hear something at night

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youallapia

to patrol at night (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yuuallapia

to wander or roam at night (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
youallapializtli, ioallapializtli

keeping watch at night (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 126.

Orthographic Variants: 
youallapialoyan

the place where they patrol at night (see Molina)

jowɑllɑpiʃki
Orthographic Variants: 
youallapixqui

one who patrols at night to keep things in order (see Molina)

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Yoalli Ehecatl

"Night Wind," a deity that is part of the Ometeotl Complex, primordial parents of deities and humans, creation
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

Orthographic Variants: 
yuualli niquitztoc

to keep vigil or to stay up late (see Molina)

yowɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
youalli, yoali, yoalli, yualli, yuualli

nighttime, each night, or all night, night after night (see Lockhart); also, "the night, the wind" was another way of referring to the deity of the near and far (see Sahagún); darkness, shadow

1. night. 2. root of YOHUALTIC, TZONYOHUALLI and other words. s.t. round.
s.o. who walks at night.
yowɑlnepɑntɬɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
yohualnepantlah, yoalnepantla, youalnepantla, ioalnepantla

midnight, or at midnight (see Molina and Karttunen)

to go out at night.