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iyoca.

Headword: 
iyoca.
Principal English Translation: 

by itself (himself, herself), apart, alone, aside, separate, in private

Orthographic Variants: 
iyuca
Attestations from sources in English: 

huel iyoca = in private
Stafford Poole, Our Lady of Guadalupe (1995), p. 40.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ca çan iyoca yn quiyahuiloc yn inmilpan Tlacochcalca yn canin tetzallan cahcatca ynauhxihuixti yn in mayanalloc ynic motlamauhtilli yn diablo Tezcatlipoca = The fields of the Tlacochcalca which were scattered somewhere between that of other people got special rain. It lasted four years that people were starving, whereupon the devil Tezcatlipoa was scared. (citando a Chimalpahin 1949–1952, fol. 154v.)
Elke Ruhnau, "Chalco and the Rest of the World. The Powerstructure in Prehispanic and Early Colonial Central Mexico and its Representation in Chimalpahin's Diferentes historias originales," en Códices y documentos sobre México: Tercer Simposio Internacional, ed. Constanza Vega Sosa (2000), p. 274.

IDIEZ morfema: 
iyoca.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
apart, by itself.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Campa motlaliah macehualmeh zo tlapiyalmeh, zo campa quitlaliah tlamantli tlen axcanah itztoc zo eltoc zancehco. “’Iyoca xictlalican nopa cintli; axcanah huanya olotl. ”
IDIEZ morfología: 
iyoh, ca1
IDIEZ gramática: 
quen.