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ɑːʃoːtʃiɑːtɬ

water flower (Sahagún); or, evening primrose design
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 98.

ɑːʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
āxōchitl

a marsh plant (Erblichia odorata, Astianthus viminalis) (see Karttunen)

a type of acuatic plant with white flowers.

a song dedicated to the people of Axochitlan (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 154–155.

immediately outside the small water channel surrounding a house.
small channel at the sides of a house formed by water that falls from the roof.
stream with bitter tasting water.
ɑːʃokotɬ

a sour or tart drink

a grey insect that sings when it is time for planting.
color of a tender green shoot.

a person's name (gender not attested)

ɑːʃoːloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
axulutl, axollotl, asolotl

a salamander-like fish, aquatic and gilled, that can regenerate parts of its body that might be eaten by another axolotl; these were prized animals, bought and sold; they are still found in Lake Xochimilco, but they are endangered (see Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl)

the trichina in a specific pig’s flesh.
for pork to be full of cysts.
Orthographic Variants: 
axomulli, axumulli

an estuary; a water nook (see attestations)

ɑʃokeːn

a Great Blue Heron, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); and, a farming tool (like a coa) with a animal design on the handle (see attestations in Spanish)

this edible herb is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r. See also f. 135r.

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
axoxoctiya

to make something green, blue-green (see attestations)

green water, or dark green water (see attestations)