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sokiɑkki
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiacqui

to be stuck in a marsh or swamp (see Molina)

sokiɑːltiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquialtia

to make something muddy; or, to make someone muddy (see Molina)

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.

sokiɑki
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiaqui
sokiɑkiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiaquia
sokiɑːtɬ

silt (a noun) (see Molina)

muddy or churned water.
Orthographic Variants: 
çoquiaçolin

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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

Orthographic Variants: 
çoquicanauhtli

Fulvous Whistlign-Duck (see Hunn, attestations)

sokikɑʃitɬ

flat earthen bowl (see Karttunen)

a small shrimp (see Molina)

sokitʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquichiua

to make mud to build walls, or to make bricks, etc. (see Molina)

1. reinforce a wall with mud. 2. for a child to play with mud.
for a woman to mix mud and sand for making clay griddles or pottery.
sokitʃiːwki
Orthographic Variants: 
çoquichiuhqui

someone who works clay (see Karttunen); a potter (see Sahagún)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 42.

Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiquaqualachtla

a marshy, muddy place (see Molina)

a type of vernal pond toad
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 67v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/67v/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.

sokiwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiuia

to get everything muddy (see Molina)

to stir mud with one’s hand or foot.