yolizmatiliztli.

Headword:

yolizmatiliztli.

Principal English Translation:

prudence, ingenuity

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 242.

IPAspelling:

joːlismɑtilistɬi

Alonso de Molina:

yolizmatiliztli. prudencia y cordura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 40r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

shortened from yōliliztli life, mati, -liztli.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 242.