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yolicniuhtli.

Headword: 
yolicniuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

bosom friend (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlicnīuhtli
IPAspelling: 
yoːlikniːwtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLICNĪUH-TLI pl: -MEH bosom friend / amigos de corazón (Z for plural) [(1)Zp.232]. Z only gives this in the plural, M only in possessed form. See YŌL-LI, (I)CNĪUH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 342.

themes: 
Friendship, Affection