eel.

Headword: 
eel.
Principal English Translation: 

to be diligent and solicitous (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yiel, yiehel
IPAspelling: 
eːeːl
Alonso de Molina: 

eel. n. ser diligente y solicito.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

In qualli in tlacatl oquichpiltõtli, ciuapiltontli yiel, yiehel = The good noble boy, the [good] noble girl [are] diligent, solicitous (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 3.