Principal English Translation:
that, that one (see Karttunen, Lockhart); directional indicator for back of that
Frances Karttunen:
INŌN that one / ésta, éste, éso (S) See IN, ŌN,
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 106.
Horacio Carochi / English:
inōn = that
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 503.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
inōn. demonstrative pronoun. that. combination of subordinator in and demonstrative ōn.
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), 220.
Attestations from sources in English:
inōn = that
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 503.
no = inon = ese = that one (This is a variant found in the language of dances that were recorded in various pueblos by ethnographers.) (twentieth century)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La Danza de los Tecuanes," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 (1980), 239–286, see especially p. 256.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
inon = este, esta; pl. iniqueon. Inon se usa para indicar objetos viles, seres despreciables; inon tel, esta piedra; inon ichtecapol, este ladrón
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xliv.