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iyolic.

Headword: 
iyolic.
Principal English Translation: 

slowly, gently, little by little, carefully, peacefully, cautiously, deliberately etc. (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yolic, yiolic, iyollic
IPAspelling: 
iːyoːlik
Alonso de Molina: 

Iyolic. poco a poco. mansamente, y contiento. Aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 36v.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪYŌLIC gradually, pacifically / poco a poco, mansamente, y con tiempo (M)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 123.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

īyōlīc = gently, slowly, peacefully
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), 504.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh cencan yiolic in techxocotivi, in techcaltechpachotivi = Very slowly they went along throwing us back, pushing us against the wall.
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 232.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ayac quimontlacahualtiz ayac quimoixnamiquiz zan iyollic contzacuazque = que nadie obstacularizará ni opondrá, para que en paz lo cierren (centro de Mexico, 1571)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 138.