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yolcualli.

Headword: 
yolcualli.
Principal English Translation: 

someone trustworthy, honest, faithful (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yōlcualli
IPAspelling: 
yoːlkwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

YŌLCUAL-LI someone trustworthy, honest, faithful / fiel, honrado, justo, honesto, simpatico (Z) [(6)Zp.60,68,74,116,231]. See YŌL-LI, CUAL-LI.
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: 
Behavior, Personality
Religion (Indigenous)
See also: 
yollotl.
cualli iyollo.
cualli.