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yollotia.

Headword: 
yollotia.
Principal English Translation: 

to inspire someone to do something

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.

to decorate something; to discover something about a friend (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
yoːlloːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

yollotia. ninotla. (pret. oninotlayolloti.) decorar algo.
yollotia. nite. (pret. oniteyolloti.) inspirar algo a otro.
yollotia. nicno. (pret. onicnoyolloti.) descubrir algo al amigo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 40v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLLŌTIĀ vt to confide in a friend; to inspire someone / descubrir algo al amigo (M), inspirar algo a otro (M) [(1)Bf.2r]. See YŌLLŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 342.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 3: ōnicyōllohtih. yōllohtli, -tia
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.