yolqui

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl yolqui.

Noun

yolqui (animate)

1. Animal, beast.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From yōli (“live”) +‎ -qui. Compare yōlcatl (“insect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /joːlki/

Noun

yōlqui (plural yōlqueh)

1. A living thing.
2. A beast of burden.

References

• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 343
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 242