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ɑhweliti
Orthographic Variants: 
ahhueliti

to be impossible (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
Avellittoc, Auelittoc

a personal name meaning invisible; e.g. a ruler of Tlatelolco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)

Orthographic Variants: 
aueiactli

a type of rattlesnake (the image in the DFC shows a brown belly and a black or dark gray back)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 86r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/86r/images/0 Accessed 2 November 2025.

verbalizing suffix.
appellative used to address a married or an older woman.
Orthographic Variants: 
auia tecan

to scorn someone, or to rejoice at his misfortune (see Molina)

ɑːwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
auia, ahuiya

to have what is necessary and to be content (see Molina)

to mock or ridicule someone; or, to be lazy owing to one's bad character (see Molina)

ɑhwiɑːk
Orthographic Variants: 
auiac, auiyac, ahuiyac

something smooth and fragrant, something pleasant, pleasing

Orthographic Variants: 
auiaca, auiyaca

smoothly or pleasantly (adverb)

Orthographic Variants: 
auiacamachoni

something smooth and fragrant, something pleasant (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
auiacamati

to know well the delicious and soft delicacy, or the fragrant thing

ɑhwiɑːkɑːyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
auiacayotl, auiyacayotl

smoothness or fragrance, or aroma of something delicious and pleasing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
auiyalia, auialia

to perfume or wave incense over something (see Molina)

ɑhwiɑːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
auializtli

smoothness of aroma, or of something pleasing and delicious (see Molina)

content, satisfied
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 149.

Orthographic Variants: 
auiani calli

bordello, brothel, house of prostitution (see Molina)

ɑːwiyɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
auiani, aviani, ahuiyani, āhuiyani

prostitute, harlot, sex worker, pleasure woman, carnal woman; can also be a bathed slave, captive, sacrificial victim (see Molina and attestations); see also our entry for ahuiyani

Orthographic Variants: 
auianiti

to be a prostitute

ɑhwiɑːyɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
auiaya

for something or someone to smell good