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coyametl.

Headword: 
coyametl.
Principal English Translation: 

pig; peccary
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

IPAspelling: 
koyɑmetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

coyametl. puerco.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COYAME-TL pl; CŌCOYAMEH pig; peccary / puerco (M), jabalí(C)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 42.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

abs. pl. cōcoyameh or coyameh. 216
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

cocoyameh (the reduplicative plural form)
Antonio Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocbulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones ue en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 5r.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.