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yeliztli.

Headword: 
yeliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

being, essence

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), 242.

IPAspelling: 
yelistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

yeliztli. ser, o estado de cada cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YELIZ-TLI state of being / ser o estado de cada cosa (M) [(1)Bf.10v, (2)Cf.84r]. See the verb YE.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 338.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

cah (alternate root ye), -liztli.
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), 242.