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yolquetza.

Headword: 
yolquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to despair, lose hope (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlquetza
IPAspelling: 
yoːlketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLQUETZ(A) vrefl to despair, lose hope / se desespera (Z) [(2)Zp.42,175]. The gloss of this item seems contrary to the sense of its constituent parts. See YŌL-, QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 343.