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yaqui.

Headword: 
yaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

gone, already departed for someplace else (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

yaqui. ydo o partido para alguna parte.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

archaic singular of pret. of yauh, often seen in records of Tlaxcalan region
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), 241.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yaqui (adjective) = departed, gone, left for a place
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 168.