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ayolhuaztli.

Headword: 
ayolhuaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a water well (see Molina and attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
aolhuaztli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːjoːlwɑːstɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

ayolhuaztli. pozo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

aolhuaztepa = junto al pozo (San Bartolomé Tenango, 1585)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 252–253.

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