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dewlap of a pig (see Molina)

koyɑmetɬ

pig; peccary
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

a young pig (see Molina)

kojoːɑkʃojɑtɬ

a squill (see Molina); a perennial medicinal plant, a large bulb in the lily family that grows to about a meter and a half tall and has dark green leaves and a white flower, similar to the common onion; can also resemble the hyacinth, with small cluster of violet-blue or blue-striped flowers

kojoːtʃoːkɑ

to howl like a coyote (see Molina)

koyoktik

a hole, or something with a hole in it (see Molina)

a hole or s.t. with a hole.
koyoktɬi

hole (see Karttunen)

coyote skin cape

Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 186.

koyoːwɑhkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
coyōhuahcān

place name Coyoacan (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuyuacan, coyouacan

an important altepetl south of Mexico City, today spelled Coyoacan
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

Orthographic Variants: 
coioichcatl

coyote-colored (e.g. wool or cotton)

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 14.

kojolɑːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
coyulacatl

a large cane used for fishing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
coyolcali, coyocalli

a bell tower (see attestations)

koyolli
Orthographic Variants: 
coiolli, cuyulli

a small bell; a church bell; or, a fishhook (see Molina)

fruit of a type of palm (coco de aceite).
kojolomikɑlli

a case for a punch tool (see Molina)

kojolomitɬ

a punch tool, or an awl (a pointed instrument) (see Molina)

to be in a place full of scorpions

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoania and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 227.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuyoltecatl

a person's name (attested male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuyollto

a person's name (attested as male)