What Yollotl means
Built on the verb to live, so the heart is literally the living thing. Carochi records the idiom yollo pachihui, to finish understanding something, showing that the heart was also the seat of thought.
NahuatlCore vocabulary
Yollotl
“heart”
Say it
YOH·lohtl
Classical form
yōllōtl (heart), from yōli (to live)
Names built from Yollotl
2 names on this site use this word.
The Nahuatl words behind the names
Learn twenty of these and most Aztec names decode themselves. Atl is water, tlalli earth, citlalin star, metztli moon, yollotl heart, cuauhtli eagle, xochitl flower.
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