yolaactihuechiliztli.

Headword:

Principal English Translation:

great distress and anguish (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

yolaactiuechiliztli

Alonso de Molina:

yolaactiuechiliztli. aflicion y angustia grande.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 39v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

"The words '-yol' and '-yollo', literally 'heart' but often used for the mind, the emotions, and volition, figure in a large number of Nahuatl idioms. You will find a group of eleven of them in Molina under Noyol and Noyollo."
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written, 2001, 156.

themes:

Emotions