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to extend flat things on a surface.

a type of locust, something like the acachapolin, but its wings are speckled like a quail (zolin)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 102v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/102v Accessed 7 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
çolcanauhtli

Gadwall, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

soːlkoːɑːtɬ

a very poisonous snake (see Molina)

soːlin
Orthographic Variants: 
çolin, çulin, Zolly, çolli, çoli, zolli, zoli

Montezuma Quail, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); also, a person's name (attested as male)

soloɑː

for clothing (or the like) to get old (see Molina)

soloːni

for a river to move with great impetus and noise (see Molina) (a verb)

for a river to move with great impetus and noise (see Molina) (a verb)

soltik

something old (see Karttunen)

soːmɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zōmā, çoma

to frown in anger (see Karttunen); to become angry

soːmɑːliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zōmāliā

to become angry, to work oneself into a rage (see Karttunen)

soːmɑːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
zōmālli

anger (see Karttunen)

soːnektik

something soft, spongy, or light (see Molina)

soːneːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zoneua
1. for s.o.’s stomach to swell with gas due to eating s.t. that didn’t agree with them. 2. for a dead person or animal’s stomach to swell. 3. for a tortilla to swell as it cooks. 4. for an disturbed frog’s body to swell.
soːneːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
zoneualiztli

the growth of the river, etc. (see Molina)

soːneːwɑltiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zōnēhualtiā

to cause something to swell; to suffocate (see Karttunen)

soːneːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
zōnēhui

to inflate (see Karttunen)

a bed that is soft and fluffy (see Molina)