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axomolli.

Headword: 
axomolli.
Principal English Translation: 

an estuary; a water nook (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
axomulli, axumulli
Alonso de Molina: 

axumulli. estero de mar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

axomulli = a water nook
Angel Julián García Zambrano, "Ancestral Rituals of Landscape Exploration and Appropriation among Indigenous Communities in Early Colonial Mexico," in Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University Press, 2007), 194.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Hay golfos (aitectli, aitic o ayolloco), estuarios (axomolli), estrechos (imonamicyan in ilhuicaatl, ipitzahuayan in ilhuicaatl, itzoliuhyan in ilhuicaatl)."
Alain Musset, El agua en el valle de México, siglos XVI-XVIII (1992), 42.

"Axomolli o axomulli (de atl, agua y xomolli o xomulli, “rincón” o “en el rincón” (Siméon, (1977) 1996: 50, 778) es el nombre en lengua nahuatl con que uno de estos parajes, seleccionado como lugar de asentamiento, aparece...."
Estudios históricos: arquitectura y diseño 4-6 (1999), 23.

themes: 
Water