yaoyotl

yaoyotl

1. war

• yaoyutl

From yāōtl (“enemy”) +‎ -yōtl.

• IPA^(key): /jaːoːjoːt͡ɬ/
• IPA^(key): [jaː.ˈóː.joːt͡ɬ]

yāōyōtl

1. War; warfare.
   • 1547: Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)

     Taoyutl [sic], guerra.

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   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mexicana:

     Guerra. yaoyotl.necaliliztli.tlayecoliztli.& per metapho.
     mitl.chimalli.atl.tlachinolli.vel,teuatl,tlachinolli.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• mitl chimalli

• Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition University of Oklahoma Press, p. 266.
• Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl University of Texas Press, p. 335.
• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written Stanford University Press, p. 242.