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.
a place name; the place where Nequametl became teuctli
(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 139.
ZOQUI-Ā-ZŌL-IN, literally, “mud quail,” Wilson’s Snipe (Gallinago delicata) [FC: 28 çoquiaçolin]. Synonym of Ā-ZŌL-IN, the Wilson’s Snipe. Fr. Bernardino ]de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, 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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.