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ayotl.

Headword: 
ayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

anything having to do with water; the juice of strained herbs (see Molina); liquidity (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
ayutl
Alonso de Molina: 

ayutl. tortuga, o zumo de yeruas estrujadas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

taio = our liquid (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 132.

themes: 
Water
See also: 
atl.
-yotl.