A

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to drown.
# ni. Una persona, un animal silvestre y un animal domestico que no puede nadar se mete en el agua, se queda abajo del agua, empieza a pataliar y respira pura agua”.
to drown s.o. or an animal.

a person's name (attested as male); also, a leader among hunters

neither...nor

Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 129.

Orthographic Variants: 
amo aqui, amo acqui, amo acquin

no one

he/she did not bleed, i.e. it cost that person nothing (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
amo uecauani, amo vecauani

a person (Molina says "woman") who often stops, does not go far

Orthographic Variants: 
amo ueinauatil, amo huey nahuatil

you all are much obliged

Orthographic Variants: 
amo ueli

not possible, something impossible

I have no say in what is going on, and no one is paying attention

Orthographic Variants: 
acmo ihual

it is not the same (is part of this a loanword, igual?)

Orthographic Variants: 
amo ytech maxitlani

something delicate such as glass that will easily break (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amo yuhca teyollo

perhaps, or suddenly and without thinking (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amo yxnamiquiztli

something that cannot be denied or resisted (see Molina)

a glutton who is never satisfied

it is not (see attestations)

without doubt

Orthographic Variants: 
amomopilhuia

to lose everything when a thief takes all from the house, or when ice or hail completely destroys the crops, vines, or orchards (see Molina)