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yolchipahualiztli.

Headword: 
yolchipahualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

perfection of spirit (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlchipāhualiztli
IPAspelling: 
yoːltʃipɑːwɑlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLCHIPĀHUALIZ-TLI perfection of spirit / perfección (Z) [(2)Zp.97,232]. See YŌL-LI, CHIPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 341.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"The words '-yol' and '-yollo,' literally 'heart' but often used for the mind, the emotions, and volition, figure in a large number of Nahuatl idioms. You will find a group of eleven of them in Molina under Noyol and Noyollo."
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written, 2001, 156.

See also: 
yollotl.