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yolihuani.

Headword: 
yolihuani.
Principal English Translation: 

something that sustains life (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlīhuani
IPAspelling: 
yoːliːwɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLĪHUANI something that sustains life / instrumento para vivir (C), que da vida (C) [(2)Cf.45v,46r]. See YŌLIHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 342.

themes: 
Philosophy