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Orthographic Variants: 
uauhpuzteco, huauhpuzteco

everyone gathers wild amaranth with their hands (?) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uauhpuztequi, huauhpuztequi

to gather wild amaranth with one's hands (?) (see Molina)

wɑːwkilitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
uauhquilitl

"wild amaranth, greens which are boiled and eaten as a vegetable" (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uauhteca

to plant amaranth seeds (see Molina)

wɑːwtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
huāuhtli, oauhtli, hoauhtli, vauhtli

amaranth (see Karttunen)

wɑːʃkwɑwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
huāxcuahuitl

guaje tree (see Karttunen)

wɑːʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
huāx

the white lead tree, a large tropical tree that produces edible pods (Leucaena diversifolia, Crescentia alata) (see DFC and Karttunen)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 123v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/123v/images/c9dadaa9-... . Accessed 13 November 2025.

wɑːʃpiːtstɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
huāxpītztli

dried seed of the guaje tree (see Karttunen)

wɑːʃtepeːk
Orthographic Variants: 
Guaxtepec, Oaxtepec

Today spelled Oaxtepec, in the modern Mexican state of Morelos, this was a Nahua community.

Relación Geográfica of September 24, 1580; Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin; http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/rg/rg_images9.html

wood splinters.
Orthographic Variants: 
vaxcac, huaxacac

a placename for modern Oaxaca city, state of Oaxaca, Mexico

wɑːyik
Orthographic Variants: 
huāyic

something dry (see Karttunen)

large road or highway.
Orthographic Variants: 
uayulcatia
Orthographic Variants: 
uayulcayotl
to loose weight due to sickness or lack of appetite.
1. to scratch s.t. or s.t. 2. for s.t. sharp and portruding to scratch s.o. or s.t. as they pass by. 3. to scribble on s.t. 4. to sign s.t.
A. 1. nic. Una persona pinta una cosa. “Aquel bebé nadamás lo raya el papel porque todavía no sabe escribir”. 2. nitla. Firmar el papel. “Inés firmó la boleta de la escuela de su hijo”. B. 1. razar algo. 2. firmar
to write or paint on paper or another thing that belongs to s.o. else.
# una persona raya un papel u otra cosa que no es de ella. “Rubén cuando se enojan con su hermano raya el libro que lleva a la escuela.”
Orthographic Variants: 
nitlahuazoma

to skin or flay
Olmos, 1547, cited in Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/huazoma

Orthographic Variants: 
uazuntinemi, huazuntinemi

to live in need, in poverty (see Molina)