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yaya.

Headword: 
yaya.
Principal English Translation: 

to go (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yahyā
IPAspelling: 
yɑhyɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

YAHYĀ to go / ir (K) [(1)Cf.71r, (1)Rp.36]. C uses this as an example of reduplication with a distributive sense; inchāchan ōyāyāquê ‘each of them went to his own home.’ redup. YĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 334.