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iyo.

Headword: 
iyo.
Principal English Translation: 

only (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
iyoh
IPAspelling: 
iyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

IYOH only / solo, solamente (S) This is the lexicalized third person singular preterit form of the verb. IYOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 123.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

something alone; pret. agentive noun becoming a particle. usually seen in çan iyoh, exclusively. as pret. agentive has abs. pl. iyohqueh. verb of origin now lost.
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), 222.

IDIEZ morfema: 
iyo.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
the only one. See IYOH.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Xiquitta IYOH.
See also: 
zan iyo.
za iyo.