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ahuiliztli.

Headword: 
ahuiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

joy, pleasure, enjoyment, recreation (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents ahuiliztli in this entry for the compound glyph Ahuilizapan in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ahuiliz-apan: ahuiliztli, “alegría” + átl, “agua” = “En las aguas alegres”
Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, vol. 15–16, p. 43.

ahuiliztli sust. verbal = recreo , alegría. Ahuilizapan, Orizaba.
Pedro Barra y Valenzuela, Raices etimológicas del idioma náhuatl (1944), 38.

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