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silt (a noun) (see Molina)

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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

flat earthen bowl (see Karttunen)

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

a marshy, muddy place (see Molina)

to throw mud at someone

something covered with mud or clay
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.