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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.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