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possession of property (see Molina)

ɑːʃkɑːtiɑː

to make it one's own possession, to apply or appropriate something for oneself; to make it the possession of another; to give possession of something to someone (see Molina and Karttunen)

1. leave s.t. for s.o. as an inheritance. 2. to take as one’s own s.o. else’s property.
ɑːʃkɑːtoːntɬi

some little thing, small property, or a small piece of land (see Molina)

1. that is spoiled. 2. person who hurts others with witchcraft. 3. soul of a dead person who scares people. 4. animal who foretells bad luck when it cries out. 4. paper cuttings from a ceremony that have been left someplace: they are dangerous to touch.
ɑːʃiːktɬi

an eddy, a whirlpool (see Karttunen); a whirlpool in water that has a current (see Molina)

a river where the water forms whirlpools (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Axicyotzin

a personal name; e.g. the eighth child of Ahuitzotl, a ruler of Tenochtitlan
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 154–155.

ɑhʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
axioa

an arrival takes place (impersonal of ahci)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 33, 211.

ɑhʃiːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
axiualiztli

the arrival of a group from somewhere else (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
axiuayan

an inn (see Molina)

color of tender green shoots.
ɑːʃiwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
āxihuitl

a type of tree (see Karttunen)

ɑhʃiliɑː

to come to know something completely (the root verb is açi) (see Molina and Karttunen)

ɑhʃiliɑː

to hunt in the woods or to hunt for another person (see Molina and Karttunen)

ɑːʃilli
Orthographic Variants: 
āxilli

river crayfish (see Karttunen)

ɑhʃiltiɑː

to request or to add that which is lacking; to accompany or follow someone until reaching a resting place; to cause something to arrive or get somewhere

ɑːʃin
Orthographic Variants: 
āxin

an insect (Llaveia axin, in the family Margarodidae, order Hemiptera) a genus endemic to Mexico and Guatemala) (personal communication, Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg, 10 May 2022); the insect secrets a substance/ointment used medicinally, and that substance itself is also called axin (see Karttunen)

ɑhʃiːtiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
ahxītiā

causative of ahci

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 211.

ɑhʃitɬɑni

to come close, get close; to allow something to reach one