ihiotl.

Headword: 
ihiotl.
Principal English Translation: 

breath, respiration, blown air, a puff of air, a blast of air (see Molina); see also our entry for ihiyotl

Orthographic Variants: 
ihiyotl
Alonso de Molina: 

ihiotl. aliento huelgo, o soplo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 36v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ihiyotl tlatolli, "breath + words = fine speech;"
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 22.

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