Principal English Translation:
to be (formal variant) (see Karttunen)
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
nino. in fact virtually never in first person. yetz- irregular reflexive combining form of cah plus cah as auxiliary.
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.