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ɑːjohtoːkɑ

to plant squash seeds (see Molina)

ɑːyoːtoːtʃkɑkɑwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
āyōtōchcacahuatl

an armadillo shell (see Karttunen)

ɑːyoːtoːtʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
āyōtōchin, ayotochtli

armadillo; literally, turtle-rabbit (see Karttunen)

armadillo.

an armadillo, literally a turtle-rabbit (see attestations)

a general planting of squash seeds; everyone is planting squash seeds (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Aiotzin

a personal name; the name of a Chichimec ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex); the name means "Squash"

a place name; not far from Chalco Atenco (central Mexico, 1614)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 292–293.

ɑːyoːtsiːnkwepɑ

to tumble (see Karttunen); or, to turn around or to climb the way they do in Spain (see Molina)

to harvest squash with the idea of storing it to eat mid-year (see Molina)

ɑyohʃiwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ayohxihuitl

squash greens (see Karttunen)

squash or pumpkin seed.
ɑyohʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ayuxuchitl, ayojochi

squash blossom (see Molina and attestations)

ɑːjohʃoːtʃkilitɬ

squash blossom (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ayohxochquiltemolin

a beetle that eats squash blossoms; or a "bumblebee flower beetle"
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106r/images/0 Accessed 9 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
ayoiacaquilitl

this herb is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r.
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

ɑyohyoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
ayohyōlli

squash seed (see Karttunen)

ill-humored and insensitive (see Molina)