-yeyan. | Nahuatl Dictionary

-yeyan.

Headword:

-yeyan.

Principal English Translation:

one's place, or seat (see Molina); Molina gives the example in the first person, possessed: my place, my seat, my throne

Alonso de Molina:

yeyan. no. mi lugar, o asiento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

yeyantli. lugar, o asiento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

the place where one is or usually is; one's quarters; a locative noun. ye alternate root of cah, -yān.
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.

themes:

Politics, Power, Governance