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izta ayotl.

Headword: 
izta ayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

brine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
izta ayutl, iztac ayotl
Alonso de Molina: 

izta ayutl. salmuera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 49r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Composed of izta (iztatl, iztac), for white or salt; and ayotl, for something watery.
Cecilio Agustín Robelo, Nombres geográficos mexicanos del Distrito Federal: estudio crítico-etimológico (Mexico: J. D. Rojas, 1901), 103.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

i ayotl nozo i iztaca
Explicación clara y sucinta de los principales misterios de nuestra santa fé: oracion domincal, mandamientos y sacramentos en el ideioma mexicano a beneficio de los Indios (Impr. del Hospital de S. Pedro, 1835), 20.