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ɑːmiktɬɑːn

an abyss, deep water (see Molina)

ɑːmiktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
āmictli

thirst (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
Amimitl

a deity's name; Water-gig; in Classic times, this was the god of fishing, according to Ponce and Clavigero (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

Orthographic Variants: 
amiuayan

a place for riding horses or going hunting (see Molina)

ɑmiliɑ

to ride or to go hunting for other people

ɑmilistɬi

riding or hunting (see Molina)

ɑːmiːlli

irrigated field, irrigated land
Sarah Cline, "The Book of Tributes: The Cuernavaca-region Censuses," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.

ɑmilotetɬ

the eggs of a white fish (see Molina); the fish in this case may be the shortfin silverside (Digital Florentine Codex)

ɑmilotɬ

a shortfin silverside (Florentine Codex); a white fish (see Molina)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 66r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/66r/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.

a wind from the south (see Molina)

toward the agricultural fields with irrigation, acuatic plantings; also seems to have an association with "south" (likely given that the chinampa agriculture was in the southern part of the capital city)
Miguel León-Portilla, "Un testimonio de Sahagún aprovechado por Chimalpahin," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 95–129; see pp. 120–121.

ɑːmiːltomɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
āmīltomatl

green membrane tomato (see Karttunen)

something rough, crude (see Molina)

a wave or undulation of water (see Molina)

a deity's name; "Hunting Arrow" was a god related to the hunting/stellar Chichimec deity Mixcoatl/Camaxtli and to Otontecuhtli, the patron of the Otomi people; the name Amimitl may have been carried by an ancestral ruler of the P'urhépecha
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 107.

ɑːmiːnɑ

for water to make one ill, drinking it after eating cucumbers or raw herbs (see Molina)

a hunting dog; a greyhound (see Molina)

a rider or a hunter (see Molina)

ɑːmiːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
āmīntli

diarrhea (see Karttunen)