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-yolicatzin.

Headword: 
-yolicatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a polite phrase for greeting or passing (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

Orthographic Variants: 
-yōlīcahtzin
IPAspelling: 
-yoːliːkɑhtsin
Frances Karttunen: 

-YŌLĪCAHTZIN necessarily possessed form polite phrase for greeting or passing / (seas) bien venido (C) [(1)Bf.1v, (6)Cf.86r,12Or]. The literal sense of this is very close to ‘take it easy.’ See YŌLIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 342.