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yolmelahuac.

Headword: 
yolmelahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

someone honest, honorable, meek (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlmelāhuac
IPAspelling: 
yoːlmelɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLMELĀHUAC someone honest, honorable, meek / humilde, justo, honrado, honesto (Z) [(5)Zp.68,69,74,232]. This is different in sense from M’s yolmelaua, which has to do with confession. See YŌL-LI, MELĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 343.