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yecteltlamatqui.

Headword: 
yecteltlamatqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a wise person (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
yekteltɬɑmɑtki
Frances Karttunen: 

YECTELTLAMATQUI a wise person / sabio (Z) [(2)Zp.112,231]. If the vowel length pattern is correct, this has the literal sense of ‘knower of the things of old,’ but Z in one attestation marks the vowel of the first syllable long and in the other the vowels of the first and second syllable long. Z also has QUITĒLMATI ‘someone competent,’ and this may interact with YĒC-TLI ‘something good, pure, clean’ in some way. See YECTEL, MAT(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.