ĒY(I) three / tres (M) A variant form is YĒY(I). The internal Y reveals itself in forms like YĒXCĀN, where it undergoes spirantization, Y ˃ X. In other compounds this has the form Ē- with no final consonant. See (Y) ĒY(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 79.