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yolmictoc.

Headword: 
yolmictoc.
Principal English Translation: 

someone apathetic, discouraged (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlmictoc
IPAspelling: 
yoːlmiktok
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLMICTOC someone apathetic, discouraged / desanimado (Z) [(2)Zp.41,232]. M has yolmiqui ‘one who has fainted’ with a similar derivation. Both are from YŌLMIQU(I) ‘to be faint of heart, dispirited, depressed.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 343.