Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• yoalli
• youalli
• yovalli

Noun

yohualli

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

     Noche generalmente. youalli.

Proper noun

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.)

Derived terms

• yohualli ehecatl
• yohualnepantlah
• yohualtica

References

• Campbell, R. Joe (1997), “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)
• Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 120–121
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 340
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 242