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yehuantin.

Headword: 
yehuantin.
Principal English Translation: 

they

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), 242.

Orthographic Variants: 
yehuan
IPAspelling: 
jehwɑːntin
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

independent pronoun. short form yehhuān, reverential yehhuāntzitzin.
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), 242.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yecuandin = aquellos (Guatemala, 1637, documento en pipil)
Miguel León-Portilla, "Un Texto en Nahua Pipil de Guatemala, Siglo XVII," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 35–47, y ver 44–45.