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apachtli.

Headword: 
apachtli.
Principal English Translation: 

roe, insect larvae, or plant that grows in water, marsh hay (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āpachtli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːpɑtʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

apachtli. ouas que se crian dentro del agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 6v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀPACH-TLI roe, insect lavae, or plant that grows in water, marsh hay / ovas que se crían dentro del agua (M), planta que crece detro del río, heno (T)[(1)Tp.170]. See Ā-TL, PACH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 11.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Plants, Trees, Flora
Water