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to go out at night.
Orthographic Variants: 
Yoaltecatl

the name of a mountain near the site of the shrine to Guadalupe; it was also called Mount Yoaltecatl; it was a site where child sacrifices (called "human banners," or tlacatetehuitl) were made to the rain deities

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.

jowɑlteːtsɑːwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
youaltetzauitl

a vision or a phantom that appears at night; a ghost (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Yoaltecutli, Iioaltecutli

paired with Yohualticitl, a part of a phrase said to a newborn baby: your mother, your father; or, male/female deities

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), chapter 31, 171.

yowɑltikɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
youaltica

at night, by night (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
Yoalticitl, Iioalticitl, Iooalticitl

the goddess of the steam bath (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
yohualtlohtli, youaltlotli, iooaltlhotli, iooaltlotli, iohualtlotli, iohualtlohtli

perhaps Bat Falcon, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
yuualtotome

night birds (see Molina)

jowɑltoːtoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
youaltototl

nocturnal bird (see Molina; plural: yohualtotome)

Orthographic Variants: 
yuualtototl

a night bird (see Molina)

jowɑlʃoːtʃitɬ

a tree with medicinal value; its flowers open at night, hence its name, "Nocturnal Flower;" also called cozcaquahuitl and yahoalxochitl ("round flower") (Valley of Mexico, 1570–1587)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 122.

Orthographic Variants: 
yuuan

last night (see Molina)

jowɑpɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
youapa

in the wee hours, or very early in the morning

yowɑtimɑni

for night to fall, to be night (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yuuatzinco tlauizcalpa nitechia

to keep vigil until dawn, waiting for others (see Molina)

yowɑtsinko
Orthographic Variants: 
ioatzinco, youatzinco

very early in the morning, dawn

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.

early in the morning (right before sunrise).
early morning (4-6am).