yohualli

• yoalli
• youalli
• yovalli

From yohua (“to get dark”) +‎ -lli.

• IPA^(key): /jo(w)alli/

yohualli

1. Night; nighttime; darkness.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 181r

     Noche generalmente. youalli.

yohualli

1. A spirit; "Night" personified.
   • 17C: Crónica mexicayotl

     auh niman yohualtica ycochizpan yn huitzillihuitl yn quinotz yohuallli yehuatl yn diablo

     (And then at night, in Huitzilihuitl's sleep, the devil Yohualli spoke to him.)

• yohualli ehecatl
• yohualnepantlah
• yohualtica

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• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 340
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