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a personal name; e.g. the daughter of the lord Pochotl and the lady Huitziltzilin; granddaughter of the ruler Topiltzin; raised secretly in Tlaximaloyan; married Nopaltzin (son of Xolotl)
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 18.

something full of ants

for something to become full of ants, swell with ants (see Molina)

ɑhso
Orthographic Variants: 
aço, ahzo, azoc

perhaps, maybe, by chance (see Molina); see also our separate entry for zo in contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, which means "or"

ɑhsok
Orthographic Variants: 
àçoc, azoc, açoc

maybe even; perhaps (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
açolin

Wilson's Snipe, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

ɑːsoloːni
Orthographic Variants: 
āzolōni

for a blister to form, for water to bubble up (see Karttunen)

ɑːsoloːniɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
āzolōniā

to blister something (see Karttunen)

one of several names for an algae that is gathered, made into cakes, cooked over coals, and eaten as tostadas (Florentine Codex)

Digital Florentine Codex, Códice Digital Florentino, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 69r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/69r Accessed 28 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
açotes

a lash from a whip (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
açoça, açoça, azozan

perhaps, by chance (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
açoçan, açoça, azoza

perhaps (see Molina)

color of dirty water.
Orthographic Variants: 
aztahatl

a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

flag or banner decorated with heron feathers (see Mikulska)

ɑstɑpiltik

something very white (see Molina); heron feathers were very white, lending the word for heron (aztatl) to the color in this case (SW)

Snowy Egret feathered bib or ritual garment

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.

Orthographic Variants: 
aztatepiton

a small heron (see Molina)

Snowy Egret, a white heron, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); also, a term for a heron-feather headdress (see Molina and attestations)