Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

yectilia.

Headword: 
yectilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to restore, or to perfect something (transitive); or to justify to another person (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
yeːktiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

yectilia. nic. (pret. onicyectili.) desenetrar algo.
yectilia. nite. (pret. oniteyectili.) justificar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 34v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCTILIĀ vt to restore, perfect something / restaurar (C), lo perfecciona (T) [(1)Cf.60r, (3)Tp.219]. applic. YĒCTI. YĒCTILILIĀ applic. YĒCTILIĀ. YĒCTILĪLŌ nonact. YĒCTILIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.