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oːseːlmotɬɑweːliltik
Orthographic Variants: 
ocelmotlaueliltic

a person's name (attested as male) (Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 118–119.

Orthographic Variants: 
ucelueoaicpali, ucelueoaicpalli

jaguar skin seat

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 209.

Orthographic Variants: 
ucelueoapetlatl

jaguar skin mat

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 209.

jaguars, ocelots; Molina gives "tigers"

an "ocelotl" (i.e., jaguar) warrior

Digital Florentine Codex, Book 9, folio 10v. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/9/folio/10v

a placename; an indigenous community in the area of the Valley of Toluca, in what is now the state of Mexico

oseːloːteʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ocelotexuchitl

the flower of a plant whose roots taste like chestnuts (see Molina)

oːseːloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
hozelotl, hocelotl, vcelueoaicpali, vcelueoapetlatl

a jaguar (Felis onca), or an ocelot (Felis pardalis); a warrior; a calendrical marker; also, a person's name; sometimes translated or represented as a tigre (tiger) or a león (lion), animals that were not known in the Americas prior to colonization; could be associated with masculinity and taking care of women (see attestations)

oːseːloːʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ōcēlōxōchitl, oseloxochil

Aztec lily, tiger flower (Tigridia pavonia), the bulbs of which are used as food and to treat fevers and infertility (see Karttunen)

like ocelots or jaguars, in the manner of ocelots (when combined with eagles, a metaphor for combat)

Orthographic Variants: 
ocemmoman yn quiyauitl

to rain ceaselessly (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ochicauac
ohtʃiːwki
Orthographic Variants: 
ohchīuhqui

one who builds, maintains roads (see Karttunen)