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yoltonehua.

Headword: 
yoltonehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to feel pain, to feel badly, to be angry, to feel regret, sorrow, contrition (intrans.); to made someone else feel badly or angry (trans.)
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 249.

Orthographic Variants: 
yoltoneua
IPAspelling: 
joːltoːneːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

yoltoneua. nino. (pret. oninoyoltoneuh). tomar pesar de alguna cosa
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 41r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

yoltoneua. nite. (pret. oniteyoltoneuh) = dar pena y enojo a otro
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 41r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

moyolcocohua, moyoltonehua = he repents
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 249.

auh mo chintin ynín móhuan yoltoneuhtícatca, caçecen quinequia tlatoca-tíz = Auh mochi:nti:n in i:nmo:huan yolto:ne:uhti catca cah cecen quinequia tlahtohca:tiz = And all of their sons-in-law were mutinous, because each one wanted to rule. (Literally, to become heart enflamed.)
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 52.

manoce quin yoltonehua intlatlacol = ni tengan dolor de sus pecados
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 408.

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