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Orthographic Variants: 
amoxmachiotl

book registers (see Molina)

a book seller (see Molina); this combines the root for amoxtli (books) with namaca (to sell)

a bookshop or a paper shop (see Molina)

book-mat
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 150.

a place "where books are kept" (see Molina)

ɑːmoʃpoːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
āmoxpōhua

to read (from a book or text) (see Karttunen)

ɑːmoʃpoːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
āmoxpōhualiztli

reading (of books) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
amoxpoani

a reader of books or a relator of accountings; a well-read man (see Molina)

ɑːmoʃpoːwki
Orthographic Variants: 
āmoxpōuhqui

reader, one who reads (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
amox quimiliuhcayotl

book cover (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amox temmalhuiloni

margin of the book (see Molina)

the margin of a book (see Molina)

the name of a mountain in what is now the state of Guerrero (see attestations)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La narrativa oral náhuatl (1920–1975)," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 177–209, see 186.

Orthographic Variants: 
amox tepito

a little book (see Molina)

a writer of books (see Molina)

ɑːmoʃtɬɑhkwiloːlli

a book, a piece of writing in the form of a book (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
amox tlatiloyan

a place "where books are kept" (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amox tlatlamachilli

an illuminated book (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amox tlatlatlamachilli

an illuminated book (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amoxtlahtolpehualiztli, amox tlatolpeualiztli, amox tlatolpehualiztli

the beginning of a book (see Molina); from amoxtli, books, tlahtolli (or, more common in early Nahuatl, tlatolli), words, and pehua, to begin