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yalhua.

Headword:

yalhua.

Principal English Translation:

yesterday

Orthographic Variants:

yālhua, ye alhua

IPAspelling:

yɑːlwɑ

Alonso de Molina:

yalhua. ayer.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 30v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

YĀLHUA yesterday / ayer (M) Z has ĪYĀLHUATICA ‘the other day.'
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 334.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

yalhua. particle. 241
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 241.

Attestations from sources in English:

Ye alhua, although seen, is not the usual spelling.

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

IDIEZ morfema:

yālhua.

IDIEZ traduc. inglés:

yesterday (root of YĀLHUAYA)

IDIEZ def. náhuatl:

YĀLHUAYA iyollo. Ce tonatiuh tlen panocca [Mc. 30v].

IDIEZ gramática:

quen.

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