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yayactic.

Headword: 
yayactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something dark or tan (see Molina); swarthy (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
iaiactic
IPAspelling: 
jɑjɑktik
Alonso de Molina: 

yayactic. cosa hosca y morena.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 30v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aiactic = swarthy; iaiauhqui = swarthy (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), 95.

IDIEZ morfema: 
yāyactic.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
1. brownish black color. 2. something stained by dirty water.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
1. Tecuani, tlapiyalli zo tlamantli iixnezca tlen tlachiya quence achi yayahuic huan cafentic. “Lalo icoton mocauhqui nelyayactic pampa quinahuatihqueh ma quizaca ohuatl tlen quitlatihtoyah. ” 2. Ce tlamantli mocahua azozoquitic. “Nocoton tlahuel yayactic pampa nicachomonih campa pitzomeh maltiah. ”
IDIEZ morfología: 
yāyactli, ti1, cā.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlat.
themes: 
Colors
Water