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yecmelahuac.

Headword: 
yecmelahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

truly, certainly, clearly (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēcmelāhuac
IPAspelling: 
yeːkmelɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCMELĀHUAC truly, certainly, clearly / cierto, verdadero, claramente, seguramente (Z) [(2)Zp.230]. Z characteristically lacks the final –C, as it does in several other similar items. Z also has four attestations of YĒCMELĀN with the same sense (p.28,114,128,230) with –N replacing –HUAC See YĒC-TLI, MELĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 336.