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zan yulic.

Headword: 
zan yulic.
Principal English Translation: 

step by step, little by little, gently

Orthographic Variants: 
çan quemman, çan quemmach, çan yuian, çan icemelh, çan tlamach, çan yulic, zan yolic (?)
Alonso de Molina: 

çaniyulic. manssamente, contiento, o poco apoco aduerbio.
çanquemman. pocas vezes, o de quando en quando, o detarde en tarde.
çanquemmach. mansamente, contiento, quedo, o despacio.
çantlamach. lo mesmo es que çãquemmach.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 14r-v.

Andrés de Olmos: 

passo a passo, o con tiento, o blandamente.
Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 181.