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yeohuiptla.

Headword: 
yeohuiptla.
Principal English Translation: 

the day before yesterday (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yeouiptla
IPAspelling: 
yeoːwiːptɬɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

yeouiptla. antier.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YEŌHUĪPTLA day before yesterday / anteayer (M), antes de ayer (C) [(3)Cf.95r, (1)Zp.231]. This is constructed of YE ‘already,’ antecessive Ō and HUĪPTLA, which alone has the sense of ‘day after tomorrow.’ See YE, HUĪPTLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 338.

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