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yancuiyotl.

Headword: 
yancuiyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a first-born boy or girl (see Molina, who gives the example of the first person singular possessor, noyancuiyo, "my first born")

Alonso de Molina: 

yancuiyo. no. mi primogenito o mi primogenita.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 30v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Family, Kinship, Descent