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Orthographic Variants: 
ayohxochquiltemolin

a beetle that eats squash blossoms; or a "bumblebee flower beetle"
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106r/images/0 Accessed 9 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
ayoiacaquilitl

this herb is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r.
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.

ɑyohyoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
ayohyōlli

squash seed (see Karttunen)

ill-humored and insensitive (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
aiuh nitecaqui

to get something backwards, understand it backwards (see Molina; who gives this in the first person singular); to guess the secret intention of someone or their dishonest idea (see Siméon)

to make something wet

ɑhsɑkɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
açaca

perhaps or maybe someone...

ɑːsɑkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
açaca

to carry/transport water, or be a water carrier

to carry water.
A. ni. Una persona va por agua a la rrollo o al rio muchas veces. “María carrea agua con su pollo porque van a matar”.
Orthographic Variants: 
açacani

to transport water, or to be a water carrier (taken into Spanish as azacan; see Molina)

1. tall, thin person. 2. light chicken or turkey.
Orthographic Variants: 
açacatl

thick, solid hay (see Molina)

something full of ants

Orthographic Variants: 
asada, asadon

a hoe
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 434–435.

Orthographic Variants: 
açauatl

water reptile (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
açanitla ypan ticmatiz, azanitla ypan ticmatiz, azanitla ipan ticmatiz

do not take this for something of low value (see Molina; the verb is conjugated in the second person singular)

not a little, not a few
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 150.