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acatequi.

ɑːkɑteki
Orthographic Variants: 
acatecqui?

to cut reeds

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acatia.

to support a maize plant so that it will grow (see Molina)

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acatl.

ɑːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ācatl, aca

a reed or cane; also, a calendrical marker (used as both a day name and a year name), and a personal name; these reeds were made into darts and arrows; in hieroglyphs the acatl takes on a number of different visual forms

reed grass
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acatla.

cane fields, cane plantation (see Molina)

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Acatlan.

a place name; place of reeds; a tlaxilacalli of Xoloco, a part of Mexico City (central Mexico, 1613)
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), 252–253.

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acatlatzacualli.

Orthographic Variants: 
acatlatzaqualli

cane or reed fence
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (Mexico City: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 136.

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Acatliacapanecatl.

the name or title of a high judge (see Sahagún)

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Acatlo.

a person's name (attested male in Cuernavaca and Huexotzinco, sixteenth century); apparently referring to a Bat Falcon (see acatlotli, below)

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acatlotli.

Orthographic Variants: 
acatlohtli

Bat Falcon (a bird); see Hunn, in attestations

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acatototl.

a bird found in the thrush, reeds, sedge; an embroidery design

Tlamachtli, women's embroidery group of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, posting to Facebook. Viewed 8/9/2024. "acatototl = pájaro tordo."

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acatto.

ɑkɑtto
Orthographic Variants: 
acattopa, yacatopa

first (see Karttunen)

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acattopa.

ɑkɑttopɑ

first (see Karttunen)

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acatzanatl.

ɑːkɑtsɑnɑtɬ

Slender-billed Grackle (a bird); see Hunn, in attestations

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acaxcahua.

Orthographic Variants: 
acaxcaua

who is the owner of this? (a question) (see Molina)

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acaxilotl.

an edible root that grows in water; it can be eaten raw or cooked in a pot
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. 128v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/128v?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 16 November 2025.

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acaxilqui.

ɑːkɑʃilki

a scroll design
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 71.

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acaxitl.

ɑːkɑʃitɬ

pool, watering trough (see Molina and Karttunen)

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Acaxoch.

Orthographic Variants: 
Ācaxōch

a woman's name; in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, she is mentioned as being a wife (zohuatl), apparently of a tlahtoani
(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 152.

also, Reed-flower; in the Treatise, another way of saying deer (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

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acaxochitl.

an aquatic flower that comes in red or white, with many petals, a tuberous base with green foliage; of the lobelia family

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acaxoxouhqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
acaxoxouhquj

green maize stalks
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 78.

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