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yectiya.

Headword: 
yectiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to become good (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēctiya
IPAspelling: 
yeːktiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCTIY(A) pret: YĒCTIX ~YĒCTĪX ~ YĒCTIYAC to become good / hacerse bueno (M) [(6)Cf.32r,57v, Rp.47]. See YĒCTI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.