alluvial soil; a piece of moist, fertile land The alluvial soil interpretation comes from: Benno P. Warkentin, Footprints in the Soil: People and Ideas in Soil History (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006), 23.
# nic. Una persona le dá atole a su compadre. “Juventino le va a dar atole a Florentino mañana en ocho días porque ya tiene muchos días que bautizaron si hijo”.
something very bland, such as a mature fig (see Molina); something akin to atolli (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 132.
a personal name; the name of a ruler (often seen with the honorific suffix: Atonaltzin) in Coixtlahuaca, a Mixtec kingdom, in the fifteenth century; his Mixtec name was Dzawindanda; he died when the Aztecs conquered Coixtlahuaca. He was also sometimes called Atonal II.