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to resuscitate s.o. or an animal.
to desire s.o. or s.t.
# Persona pretende una cosa o alguien. “dora pretende comerse un pan porque tiene hambre.”
1. to plant a seed and cultivate the new plant. 2. to resuscitate s.o.’s relative or animal.
joːltinemi

to have life (see Molina)

joːltinemilistɬi

life (see Molina)

yoːltihtikwiːni
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltihticuīni

to beat, throb, palpitate (see Karttunen)

yoːltitɬɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltitlan

stomach (see Karttunen)

a madman, a crazy person

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), 37.

1. to console s.o. who is crying. 2. to console a person who is upset with kind words.
# 1. Persona que hace que deje de llorar a otra por una cosa que le gusta. “cuando lloraba el hijo de Eliazar lo en contenta con un dulce.” 2. Persona le habla a otra con calma cuando esta enojado con una cosa. “cuando mi hermano lo regañaron en la escuela, y mi papa lo en contenta.”
yoːltɬɑmɑtki
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltlamatqui

someone wise (see Karttunen)

yoːltɬɑoːkoyɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltlaōcoya

to be sad (see Karttunen)

yoːltɬɑsohtɬɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltlazohtlaliztli

love (see Karttunen); the word starts with heart

yoːltok
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltoc

someone alive, among the living (see Karttunen)

See YŌLI.
# 1. Persona, animal domestico y animal silvestre que ya casi estaba muerto y revivió. “el abuelo de Karla revive porque lo cuidaron bien.” 2. Hierba que ya se estaba secando y revivió porque llovió. “ese frijol ya se iba secando y revivió porque llovió.”
joːltoːneːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yoltoneua

to feel pain, to feel badly, to be angry, to feel regret, sorrow, contrition (intrans.); to made someone else feel badly or angry (trans.)
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 249.

joːltoneːwistɬi

pain or affliction of the heard

for a frightened person’s heart to beat rápidly.
# Persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico empieza a palpitar su corazón cuando escucha una cosa que no ve o que no le gusta, muy fea. “mi hermanito en la madrugada vio un fantasma y a media noche empezó a temblar.”
yoːltotomokɑtok
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltotomocatoc

someone excited (see Karttunen)

yoːltsɑkwiːstɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltzacuīztli

for someone’s breathing to be cut off (see Karttunen)

yoːltsɑhtsi
Orthographic Variants: 
yōltzahtzi

to cry out (see Karttunen)