yolcocole. | Nahuatl Dictionary

yolcocole.

Headword:

yolcocole.

Principal English Translation:

someone furious, excitable, impatient (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

yōlcocōleh

IPAspelling:

yoːlkokoːleh

Alonso de Molina:

yolcocole. hombre brauo e impaciente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 39v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

YŌLCOCŌLEH someone furious, excitable, impatient / hombre bravo e impaciente (M) [(1)Cf.87v]. See YŌL-, COCŌLEH.
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.

themes:

Emotions