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yolehua.

Headword: 
yolehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to be moved or inciited; to fall in love

Orthographic Variants: 
yoleua
IPAspelling: 
yoːleːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

yoleua. nino. (pret. oninoyoleuh.) prouocarse o incitarse a algo, o enamorarse.
yoleua. nite. (pret. oniteyoleuh.) prouocar asi aotro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 39v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLĒHU(A) vrefl, vt for one’s emotions to be stirred, to fall in love, to excite someone / provocarse o incitarse a algo o enamorarse (M), provocar así a otro (M) Z has this with the sense ‘to invite someone.’ See YŌL-, ĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 341.

themes: 
Emotions