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nelyolcocoliztli.

Headword: 
nelyolcocoliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

sadness (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nelyōlcocoliztli
IPAspelling: 
nelyoːlkokolistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

NELYŌLCOCOLIZ-TLI sadness / tristeza (Z) [(2)Zp.125,177]. Z also has NEYŌLCOCOLIZ-TLI 'affliction, trouble, grief,' which is formed with the nonspecific reflexive prefix NE- rather than with NEL. See NEL-LI, YŌL-, COCOLIZ-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 165.

themes: 
Emotions