yolcualli. | Nahuatl Dictionary

yolcualli.

Headword:

yolcualli.

Principal English Translation:

someone trustworthy, honest, faithful (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

yōlcualli

IPAspelling:

yoːlkwɑlli

Frances Karttunen:

YŌLCUAL-LI someone trustworthy, honest, faithful / fiel, honrado, justo, honesto, simpatico (Z) [(6)Zp.60,68,74,116,231]. See YŌL-LI, CUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 341.

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:

Behavior, Personality

Religion (Indigenous)