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amilotetl.

Headword: 
amilotetl.
Principal English Translation: 

the eggs of a white fish (see Molina); the fish in this case may be the shortfin silverside (Digital Florentine Codex)

IPAspelling: 
ɑmilotetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

amilotetl. hueuos de pescado blanco.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 5r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The fish = amilotl (translated as the shortfin silverside, a "pescado blanco" in Spanish).
The eggs of this fish = amilotetl (also called michpiltetein in this source, and "coquitos" in the Spanish text.)
This source also provides an image of these eggs of the amilotl. (SW)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 69r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/69r Accessed 28 October 2025. See also the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, "Ecume d'origine végétale recueillie sur la lagune." https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/acuitlatl Translated to English here by Stephanie Wood.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Hunting or Fishing
See also: 
amilotl.
tetl.