an ad hoc term invented to describe a catapult; literally, wooden sling for throwing stones (16th c., central Mexico) 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), 231.
a wood log (sixteenth century, central Mexico) Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 151.
a personal name; e.g. the name of a ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (1521–25) and a major figure at the time of the Spanish invasion and colonization of Mexico; son of Ahuitzotl, also a ruler of Tenochtitlan; this was also a name taken by commoner males (see Cline in attestations in English translation)
a type of wood beetle (see the DFC for a description and an image; the image could be a compound hieroglyph) Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106r/images/0 Accessed 9 November 2025.