Principal English Translation:
Frances Karttunen:
YA This is a variant of YE ‘already.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 333.
Horacio Carochi / English:
ya = related to ye (already)
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), 133–34 n4, 222 n1, 223 n3, 225 n4, 245 n6, and see 515.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
older form of ye, already, seen in certain negative forms like ayamō, and also instead of free-standing ye, especially in peripheral regions.
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.