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Amiztlato.

Headword: 
Amiztlato.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male); also, a leader among hunters

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Amiztlato in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Amiztlato is a householder in the tribute census, married to a woman named Xoco. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 162–163.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

amiztlatoque = capitanes o señores de los cazadores o prepósitos suyos
Fray Diego de Durán, 1579, quoted extensively in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/amiztlatoque/188734>/bibl>

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Names (for people, deities)