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yahuitl.

Principal English Translation: 

brown or black corn (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yāhuitl, yauitl
IPAspelling: 
yɑːwitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

yauitl. mayz moreno o negro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

IDIEZ morfema: 
yāhuitl.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
black corn.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Ce tlamantli cintli tlen quieliltia macehualli; iixnezca yayahuic. “Nonanan quimanqui inexcon huan quitemilih yahuitl cintzin.”
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlat.
themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora
Audio for Examples in Context: 

yāhuitl

tlahtolli: 
yāhuitl
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audio_acquiya_quichiuhqui: 
Sabina
speaker: 
Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl speaker, spring 2012
audio_transcription: 
Huan nouhquiya ome imachic… machconehuan. Tlen ce itocah Isabel. Quimanextia cintli coztic. Huan tlen oquichpil itocah Antonio. Quimanextia cintli yahuitl, quena.
audio_translation_SPN: 
Y también (tiene) sus dos prim... sobrinos. La que es primera se llama Isabel. Ella representa el maíz amarillo. Y el que es niño se llama Antonio. Él representa el maíz negro, sí.