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zaniyo.

Headword: 
zaniyo.
Principal English Translation: 

only, alone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zaniyoh, çaniyo
IPAspelling: 
sɑniyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

ZANIYOH only, alone / solamente, o solo (M). Other elements can intervene between ZAN and IYOH. In Z this is reduced to ZĀYOH. See ZAN, IYOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 346.

Attestations from sources in English: 

çaniyo = alone
noyoca = I alone; all alone
Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart, ca. late 1970s and early 1980s.

See also: 
zan.