Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

iyelitzin in dios.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
iyelitzin in dios.
Principal English Translation: 

the being or the essence of God (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, dios, God)

Alonso de Molina: 

iyelitzin in dios. el ser o la essencia de dios.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 36v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)